Invasive Plant Relations in a Global Pandemic
"Caring for a "Problematic Pesto
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabrielle Doiron (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 600-616 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/25148486211066109 |
| PMID | 36872956 |
| OpenAlex | W4200364493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 32 |
In Spring 2020, amidst a COVID-19 state of emergency, the City of Toronto's Parks & Urban Forestry department posted signs in the city's remaining Black Oak Savannahs to announce the cancellation of the yearly 'prescribed burn' practice, citing fears it would exacerbate pandemic conditions. With this activity and other nature management events on hold, many invasive plants continued to establish and proliferate. This paper confronts dominant attitudes in invasion ecology with Indigenous epistemologies and ideas of transformative justice, asking what can be learned from building a relationship with a much-maligned invasive plant like garlic mustard. Written in isolation as the plant began to flower in the Black Oak savannahs and beyond, this paper situates the plant's abundance and gifts within pandemic-related 'cancelled care' and 'cultivation activism' as a means of exploring human-nature relations in the settler-colonial city. It also asks what transformative lessons garlic mustard can offer about precarity, non-linear temporalities, contamination, multispecies entanglements, and the impacts of colonial property regimes on possible relations. Highlighting the entanglements of historical and ongoing violences with invasion ecology, this paper presents 'caring for invasives' as a path toward more liveable futures
Biology · Colonialism · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Indigenous · Political science · Precarity · Sociology · Temporalities · Transformative learning · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |