A case for the Inclusion of Invasive Species in the Conservation Discourse - A Multispecies Correspondences Approach

This paper seeks to represent the case of the species condemned as invasive, to reveal how they have been falsely implicated in a case of human negligence. But that is not all, it seeks to establish invasives as interlocutors who may reveal to us alternative centres of knowledge beyond the limits of our own. In nativist rhetoric the migrant human bodies have been compared to the bodies of ruderal species in cities (Stoetzer, 2022). In the imbalance of our knowledge production machinery the invasives are the counter forces that imprint the urban with certain undeniable truths. Their unacknowledged yet irrepressible voices call for inclusion of a knowledge beyond our human understanding. This papers seeks to begin the correspondences with these voices which have been most peripheral to our knowledge production. The multispecies correspondences are not methods of redistribution of the power we hold over them but acknowledgement of the power that they have always held over us, irrespective of our denial.

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