Squished Bugs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3914219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaitlin Stack Whitney (0000-0002-0815-5037, Rochester Institute of Technology), Kristoffer Whitney (0000-0002-8565-3515, Rochester Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 211-229 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2201-1919 • E-ISSN: 2201-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/22011919-10943169 |
| OpenAlex | W4393238550 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 53 |
Field guides have been a vital part of biology disciplines for centuries. This article focuses on recent pedagogical innovations in biological fieldwork, in fields such as entomology and ecology-specifically, the creation of informal field guide photographs that depict insects as ecologists-in-training are most likely to encounter them: dead and squished on cards, in nets, and on other types of insect traps. This article examines the training of ecology technicians to identify collected insects in the field and the laboratory. Technicians (whether students or volunteers) are trained to the squished reference images, with the goal of improving their insect identification skills and aid in ecological knowledge production. Using this empirical example, the article argues that squished bugs more importantly represent a pedagogical opportunity to instill an ethical reflexivity in field technicians operating well outside of academic environmental humanities circles. Drawing on multispecies studies' (and its animal studies antecedents') focus on environmental ethics, as well as the scant but growing attention to "unloved others" like invertebrates, squished bugs are used as a way of reckoning with the destruction and deformation of life for the sake of conservation knowledge and, as Donna Haraway has suggested, "staying with the trouble" of killing insects
Animal and Plant Science Education · History · Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior · Plant and animal studies
War and Nature
Wildlife in the Anthropocene
Landscapes and Labscapes
Landscape Ecology
Roads and Their Major Ecological Effects
Getting a Taste for the Bogong Moth
Citizen Science
Student Engagement and Environmental Awareness
Staying with the Trouble
From roadkill to road ecology
Approaching Insect Death
You treat them right, They'll treat you right”
Creative Solutions' and `Fibbing Results
Digitizing Lizards
Ecological Theory and Pest Control Practice
Knowing Insects
A feminist posthumanist political ecology of education for theorizing human-animal relations/relationships
Learning with children, ants, and worms in the Anthropocene
Social geography(ies) III
Domesticating nature
Lists, field guides, and the descriptive organization of seeing
Ethnography after Humanism
Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research
An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins
Estranged companions
A stroll through the worlds of animals and men
For multispecies autoethnography
"The "bander's grip
Flourishing with Awkward Creatures
Multispecies Studies
Co-Operation Among Animals
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |