Fairhead, James (2018) Technology, inclusivity and the rogue: bats and the war against the ‘invisible enemy’. Conservation and Society, 16 (2). pp. 170-180. ISSN 0972-4923

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Abstract

Although tempting to envisage the emerging violence in conservation as either against nature or in defence of it, this paper argues that such violence is increasingly between ‘the included’ and ‘rogues’ in ways that transcend the nature : society binary. The paper traces how the emergence of these battle lines is associated with the digital information revolution that is producing discourses and practices of ‘inclusion’ that embrace social and natural worlds, whilst recasting a hitherto knowable and governable ‘excluded’ as more unknowable and threatening ‘rogues’. Accordingly, the paper then illustrates how the battle against the ‘invisible enemy’ of Ebola was fought not just against rogue viruses but against rogue bats, rogue deforesters and rogue patients, transcending the nature : human binary, and similarly that sustainable solutions are being sought in rearranging landscapes within an inclusive ‘One Health’ approach.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > Anthropology
Depositing User:	Sharon Krummel
Date Deposited:	07 Sep 2017 08:43
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2019 16:04
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70018

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