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Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species

Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II

Abstract

Trash Animals, a collection of essays by a wide range of environmental writers, examines relationships between humans and wildlife deemed filthy, feral, unwanted, problematic, invasive or worthless. These essays examine a growing trend of equating wildlife with trash. They question why birders call some birds “garbage” and why fisherman discard “trash” fish. As trash is a category that only exists in human culture, equating animals with trash reveals more about human expectations, fears, prejudices and frustrations with the natural world. Each essay presents a unique thesis about a species—sea ... More

Keywords: animals, trash, invasive species, wildlife management, animal ethics, urban wildlife

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780816680542
Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816680542.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Kelsi Nagy, editor

Phillip David Johnson II, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II

I. The Symbolic Trash Animal

1 See Gull

Gavan P. L. Watson

2 Hunger Makes the Wolf

Charles Bergman

3 Beauty and the Beast

Catherine Puckett

4 Managing Apocalypse

Christina Robertson

II. The Native Trash Animal

5 One Nation under Coyote, Divisible

Lisa Couturier

6 Prairie Dog and Prejudice

Kelsi Nagy

7 Nothing Says Trash Like Packrats

Michael P. Branch

III. The Invasive Trash Animal

8 Canadas

Bernard Quetchenbach

9 The Bard’s Bird; or, The Slings and Arrows of Avicultural Hegemony

Charles Mitchell

10 Fly-Fishing for Carp as a Deeper Aesthetics

Phillip David Johnson II

IV. The Urban Trash Animal

11 Metamorphosis in Detroit

Carolyn Kraus

12 Kach’i

James E. Bishop

13 Flying Rats

Andrew D. Blechman

V. Moving Beyond Trash

14 Kill the Cat That Kills the Bird?

Bruce Barcott

15 An Unlimited Take of Ugly

Kyhl Lyndgaard

16 A Six-legged Guru

Jeffrey A. Lockwood

17 The Parables of the Rats and Mice

Kathleen Dean Moore

End Matter

Publication History

Contributors

Index