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1 Rose, “Judas Work,” 66.
2 Australian Government, “Threatened Species Strategy Summary.”
3 Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species,” 131.
4 Bagust, “South Australian Koala Wars.”
5 Jørgensen, “Recovering Lost Species.”
6 Cronon, “A Place for Stories.”
7 Suchet, “Totally Wild?,” 146.
8 Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance.”
9 Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, 41.
10 Ibid.
11 Lorimer, “Wildlife in the Anthropocene”.
12 Bocci, “Tangles of Care”; Clark, “Uncharismatic Invasives”; Helmreich, “How Scientists Think”; Jørgensen, “Recovering Lost Species”; Van Dooren, “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds,”
13 Van Dooren, “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds,” 290.
14 Haraway, When Species Meet, 80.
15 Ibid.
16 Weisberg, “Broken Promises,”
17 Ibid. pp. 29-30.
18 Schwartz, Dominique. “Death row dingoes set to be the environmental saviour,” ABC News, July 23, 2016. Accessed August 27, 2019. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-23/dingoes-set-to-become-pelorus-island-environmental-saviour/7652424.
19 For further discussion on how animals’ sociability is used against them see Giraud & Hollin, “Laboratory beagles and affective utopia,”
20 Female donkeys, chosen for the task due to their high sociability which often sees them seeking out the company of wild herds following each slaughter.
21 Bough, “Reflecting on Donkeys”; Rose, “Judas Work,”
22 Clark, “Uncharismatic Invasives”; Van Dooren, “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds,”
23 Cole & Stewart, Our Children and Other Animals; Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species”; Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,”
24 Holm, “Consider the Possum,”
25 Van Dooren, “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds,”
26 Bagust, “South Australian Koala Wars”; Molloy, Popular Media and Animals; Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species”; Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,”
27 Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species,”
28 For further discussion on the ‘fox attack’ story and how this pertains to boundary breaching, see Cassidy & Mills, “Fox tots attack shock,”
29 Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species,”
30 Bagust, “South Australian Koala Wars,”
32 Articles using persuasive language encouraging a particular emotional response were coded as emotive. Those that did not were coded as ‘neutral’. Articles that used scientific data/terminology were coded as scientific.
33 Abbott, “Origin and Spread of the Cat,”
34 Abbott, “The Spread of the Cat,”
35 Dunayer, Animal Equality.
36 Caulfield, Animals in Australia; Probyn-Rapsey, “Australia’s War on Feral Cats,”
37 Franklin Animal Nation, 146.
38 Ibid., 16.
39 Boom et al, “Pest’ and Resource.”
40 Ibid.
41 Mehmet & Simmons, “Kangaroo Court?.”
42 McKinnon et al, “Media Coverage of Lethal Control,”
43 Mehmet & Simmons, “Kangaroo Court?.”
44 Australian Government Department of Environment and Energy, “Macropod quotas and harvest,”
45 Turner, “Emotion in Persuasion and Risk Communication,”
46 John Rankine, “Feline Killing Machines can be Controlled Humanely,” The Age, August 27 2015.
47 Ibid.
48 James Taylor, “Feral Cats Threatening Native Animals, Pets,” Southern Courier, June 30 2015.
49 Robyn Wuth, “Adorable Bilby Triplets Melting Hearts,” Guardian News, January 13 2019.
50 Letter to the Editor, The Cairns Post, May 17, 2014. These statistics are often used, yet hard to corroborate due to the way they are reported in the media. For an example of the kind of information circulating regarding these numbers, see - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-13/greg-hunt-feral-cat-native-animals-factcheck/5858282
51 Ed Gannon, “Kanga Cull a Tough Choice,” Herald Sun, April 5 2018.
52 Ibid.; Erin Jones, “Roo Cull Call as Mobs Rule,” The Advertiser, November 21 2018; Peter Kostos, “Friend or Foe?,” Stock and Land, November 16 2017
53 Erin Jones, “Roo Cull Call as Mobs Rule,” The Advertiser, November 21 2018.
54 Ed Gannon, “Kanga Cull a Tough Choice,” Herald Sun, April 5 2018.
55 Ibid.
56 Kirsten Lawson, “Push for annual culling to protect ACT grasslands,” The Canberra Times, February 9, 2017.
57 Michael Delahunty, “Food Resource Wasted,” The Weekly Times, April 4 2018.
58 Ibid.
59 Caroline Zielinski, “Millions of Feral Cats to be Culled,” The Examiner, January 23 2016.
60 Philip Barnaart, Letter to the Editor, The Canberra Times, January 24 2017
61 “Let army handle feral catastrophe,” Courier Mail, October 22 2014; Des Houghton, “Army May be Asked to Shoot Super Cats,” Townsville Bulletin, October 20 2014.
62 Altheide, “Transforming Terrorist Attacks into Control and Consumption,”
63 Sykes & Matza, Techniques of Neutralization.
64 Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species,”
65 The use of these (and similar) discursive mechanisms to move nonhuman animals out of ‘pest’ categorisation is also important to note but is outside the scope of the current discussion.
66 Sensibility is described as the extent to which the lived reality of a nonhuman animal is visible or knowable – either through accurate representations or direct experiences.
67 Cole & Stewart, Our Children and Other Animals; Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species,”
68 Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern.
69 Lien, Marianne. “‘King of Fish’ or ‘Feral Peril’” Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon and the Politics of Belonging.”
70 Gressier, Catie. “Going Feral: Wild Meat Consumption and the Uncanny in Melbourne, Australia.”
71 Thompson, “The Contested Meaning and Place of Feral Cats,” 84.
72 Stewart & Cole, “Creation of a Killer Species,” 131.
73 Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,”
74 Suchet, “Totally Wild?,” 147.
75 Author Unknown, Letter to the Editor, YASS tribune, December 19, 2018.
76 Rose, “Judas Work,” 66.
77 Ibid., 52.
78 Ibid.
79 Suchet, “Totally Wild?,” 146.
80 Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, 38.
81 Van Dooren, “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds,”
82 Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,”
83 Ceballos et al, ‘Biological Annihilation’; Doherty et al, “Conservation or Politics?,”
84 Suchet, “Totally Wild?”; Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,”
85 Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,” Section 6, Paragraph 6.
86 Dunayer, Animal Equality; Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,”
87 Bergstrom et al, “Indirect Effects of Invasive Species”; Ewel & Putz, “A Place for Alien Species”; Forsyth & Reddiex, “Control of Pest Mammals,”
88 See for examples of unintentional poisoning of protected or privileged species in the pursuit of ‘pest’ management: Eason et al, “Alternatives to brodifacoum and 1080,”
89 Cole & Stewart, Our Children and Other Animals.
90 Suchet, “Totally Wild?,”
91 Wright, “Ethic of Ecological Remembrance,”
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Zoei Sutton
Zoei Sutton is a Sociology PhD candidate whose doctoral thesis focuses on the negotiation of human-companion nonhuman animal relationships, and the perpetuation of asymmetrical power relations inside and outside of the home. She is particularly interested in the development of species inclusive methods to centre nonhuman animals in research that concerns them. Email: [email protected]
Nik Taylor
Nik Taylor is a critical and public sociologist whose research focusses on mechanisms of power and marginalization expressed in/through human relations with other species and is informed by critical/intersectional feminism. Nik currently teaches topics in the Human Services program at the University of Canterbury that focus on human-nonhuman animal violence links; scholar-advocacy; social change, and crime and deviance, particularly domestic violence and nonhuman animal abuse. Email: [email protected].