The fly that tried to save the world: Saproxylic geographies and other‐than‐human ecologies

Gandy, Matthew

doi:10.1111/tran.12281

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“…Researchers engage relationality as an explicit conceptual and/or methodological approach, advancing thinking in the discipline (e.g. Gandy, 2019; Miller, 2018; Robertson and Ljubicic, 2019; Srinivasan, 2019; Wilson, 2019), and also as a broader empirical focus, through, for example, studies of the composition and functioning of cities, landscapes and oceans (e.g. Fredriksen, 2019; Satizábal and Dressler, 2019; Serrano-Montes et al, 2019; Tănăsescu, 2019; Wood, 2019).…”

Section: Further Questions: Political and Relationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Animal geographies II: Killing and caring (in times of crisis)

Gibbs

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Humans kill and care for animals in a multitude of contexts. These themes – killing and caring – form the focus of this second report on animal geographies research. Most notably, killing and caring take place through conservation and the production and consumption of food. Other realms of recent research include killing through climate change, formal arrangements of care, how animals are made killable, and the significance of the individual and collective. Further to these two major themes, the review identifies other approaches to animal geographies research in recent years; namely, political and relational. Finally, the propensity for humans to kill and care for animals is highlighted by crisis. I open and close the review by considering connections between animals and two contemporary emergencies: the fires that burned south-eastern Australia over summer 2019–20 and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Section: Further Questions: Political and Relationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Animal geographies II: Killing and caring (in times of crisis)

Gibbs

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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“…This is a parallel to rural landscapes where forests evolve in response to decreased (or ceased) agrarian land use [36,55], sylvicultural management [56,57] (Figure 1), or the abandonment of villages and farmsteads [58,59]. Although rewilding is likely a common process in many urban greenspaces, resulting wild woods have been mostly reported for old cemeteries in Europe, e.g., [60][61][62][63]. As an exception, Pregitzer et al [64] recently reported successional forests in urban parks in New York City.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Urban Forests: Opportunities for Promoting the Wild Side of the Urban Green Infrastructure

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Many cities aim to increase urban forest cover to benefit residents through the provision of ecosystem services and to promote biodiversity. As a complement to traditional forest plantings, we address opportunities associated with “emerging urban forests” (i.e., spontaneously developing forests in cities) for urban biodiversity conservation. We quantified the area of successional forests and analyzed the species richness of native and alien plants and of invertebrates (carabid beetles, spiders) in emerging forests dominated by alien or native trees, including Robinia pseudoacacia, Acer platanoides, and Betula pendula. Emerging urban forests were revealed as shared habitats of native and alien species. Native species richness was not profoundly affected by the alien (co-)dominance of the canopy. Instead, native and alien plant species richnesses were positively related. Numbers of endangered plants and invertebrates did not differ between native- and alien-dominated forest patches. Patterns of tree regeneration indicate different successional trajectories for novel forest types. We conclude that these forests (i) provide habitats for native and alien species, including some endangered species, (ii) allow city dwellers to experience wild urban nature, and (iii) support arguments for adapting forests to dynamic urban environments. Integrating emerging urban forests into the urban green infrastructure is a promising pathway to sustainable cities and can complement traditional restoration or greening approaches.

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“…If a mycorrhizal fungal network continuously reproduces itself, and dying trees are gradually absorbed into their offspring, then the boundary between life and death is rendered uncertain. 54 More generally, heat is an excessive force generative in ecological and earth-atmospheric systems, ceaselessly composing, decomposing, and recomposing matter and bodies of planet earth. This calls to mind Robin Mackay's striking expression of solar excess: "Thus we can say that all forms of life are solutions to the same problem; managing the excoriating excess of solar energy which will eventually consume them in death."…”

Section: Becoming-heatmentioning

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Becoming-elemental – a thermal imaginary in the Anthropocene

McHugh

2022

cultural geographies

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The Anthropocene problematic calls for imaginative aesthetic experiments fostering more-than-human thought and sensibilities. In this thought experiment, I draw on a sensing device in conjuring a thermal imaginary that decenters the human, espying a glimpse of a strange and uncanny world-without-us. The imaginary is a speculative performance in elemental attunement – becoming-molecular, becoming-imperceptible in the generative potentia of planetary heat – opening a pathway in rethinking bodies and worlds as emergent in, and through, forces elemental and cosmic in scope. The thermal imaginary accentuates the elemental as exorbitant, anonymous, and nonpossessable, an earthly plenum beyond any final capture, possession, mastery and control. Elemental alterity, the very strangeness of the earth, rises in the thermal imaginary as a summons, a calling from the “outside,” gesturing toward an immanent ethics of radical openness working in, and through, earthly bodies always already exposed and vulnerable in the force of the elemental. We must be open to the elemental summons, expanding capacities for what a body can do, moving beyond spinning reductive and redemptive Anthropocene narratives for saving this world. There can be no new bodies and worlds to come in the absence of an elemental ethics worthy of the earth itself.

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The fly that tried to save the world: Saproxylic geographies and other‐than‐human ecologies

Cited by 28 publications

References 56 publications

Animal geographies II: Killing and caring (in times of crisis)

Animal geographies II: Killing and caring (in times of crisis)

Emerging Urban Forests: Opportunities for Promoting the Wild Side of the Urban Green Infrastructure

Becoming-elemental – a thermal imaginary in the Anthropocene

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