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Is extermination to be the legacy of Mary Gilbert's cat?
Citation
Hillier, J and Byrne, JA, Is extermination to be the legacy of Mary Gilbert's cat?, Organization, 23, (3) pp. 387-406. ISSN 1350-5084 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1350508416629455
Abstract
Once imported to Australia as rodent controllers, cats are now regarded as responsible for a second wave of mammal extinction across the continent. Utilising the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, we investigate critically the institutional field of cat regulation in Australia, exemplified by the Western Australian Cat Act 2011 and the Federal Environment Minister’s 10-year campaign to eradicate feral cats. Analysis of the biopolitical dispositif of ferality, and its elements of knowledge, subjectivation and objectivation and power processes, illustrates the dispositions through which what might be regarded as felicide has become organisational practice. We propose alternative practices emphasising the productive potentialities of biopolitics.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | animals, biopolitics, cats, feral, management, regulation |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Political science |
Research Field: | Environmental politics |
Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
Objective Group: | Environmental policy, legislation and standards |
Objective Field: | Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Byrne, JA (Professor Jason Byrne) |
ID Code: | 123928 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
Deposited By: | Geography and Spatial Science |
Deposited On: | 2018-02-01 |
Last Modified: | 2018-04-09 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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