Savitzky, Peters & Sammler. “Bordering marine belonging: The meanings, mobilities and materialities of bioinvasion.” In Peters & Turner (eds.), Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-71322-4
This chapter builds focuses specifically on invasive species—particularly more-than-human marine life and aquatic species—and to consider how questions of what belongs where in the ocean realm are shaped by meanings of ‘nativeness’; the movement of things from ‘here’ to ‘there’ (or where they are understood to belong, or not); and the materialities that may be entangled with such meanings and mobilities (i.e. vectors of invasion, such as ‘species on (as fouling communities), in (as boring communities [in old wooden vessels]) and inside (as ballast communities)’ (Ojaveer et al., 2018: 2). It further seeks to consider how borders are enacted insofar as bio-risks, in order to contain them. It aims to continue the critical work of social science and humanities scholars exploring biogeography and bioinvasion (from Robbins [2004] to Barker and Francis [2021]) to consider how such phenomena are constructed and how borders, mobility and belonging are central to the framings of the ‘problem’.
The entire book is open source and available for free download: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-71322-4
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