Assembling Asian/American Naturecultures

Orientalism and Invited Invasions

Bibliographic Data

ID8094136
AuthorsKaren Cardozo (corresponding author), Banu Subramaniam (0000-0001-8343-0011)
Year2013
Volume16
Issue1
Pages1-23
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jaas.2013.0006
OpenAlexW1984421904
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited9

This essay de-centers the human for a more ecological perspective. Drawing on Haraway’s “naturecultures” and Deleuze and Guattari’s “assemblages,” the authors collaborate across the humanities and sciences to rethink Asian/America as a multispecies, naturecultural, and transnational phenomenon. After offering a theoretical foundation, the essay connects Asian/American Studies to issues in the biological sciences, and discusses how Said’s theory of Orientalism resonates in a multispecies paradigm – specifically, the nativism and xenophobia of “invasion biology” that vilifies foreign species with strident calls for their eradication. Case studies reveal that it is not an essential predilection to invasion, but the conditions of globalization that generate so-called invasions. The authors conclude that solutions must move from targeting species to a reconsideration of the larger forces that “invite” invasions and that assembling Asian/America generate interdisciplinary academic and political partnerships that can better solve the problems of the 21st century

Biology · Environmental ethics · Globalization · Orientalism · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Psychological nativism · Sociology · Xenophobia · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Ecology

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