Un-Natural Discourse in the Age of Anthropogenic Landscapes

ldquo;Language is too often an overlooked point of leverage in wildlife struggles. In ldquo;Un-natural Discourserdquo; Barbara shows how terms like ldquo;invasiverdquo; or ldquo;nuisance wildliferdquo; can preclude conversation. In contrast, she notes, advocates actively reclaiming the narrative with terms like ldquo;ecosystem servicesrdquo; and ldquo;restorationrdquo; can effectively reshape the outcome as well.rdquo;--Heidi Perryman, Ph.D. Jones skillfully combines multi-sited ethnography with a history of past and current perspectives on human-wildlife interactions in her call to reimagine how we perceive human relationships with wildlife and their ecosystems before it is too late. Un-Natural Discourse will prove prescient for how future human societies will merge with the lives of their non-human neighbors.--Anthony Balzano, Sussex County Community College Todayrsquo;s wildlife face unprecedented challenges as humanity changes the way, where, and how they can live at ever faster rates. Barbara Jones#39;s Un-natural Discourse in the Age of Anthropogenic Landscapes: How We Imagine Wildlife offers fact-based stories of these wildlife difficulties and sometimes not so happy endings to reveal their causes, how our human dominance perspective is changing and the chance for a mutual way forward for all living things.--Gregg Servheen, Retired Wildlife Biologist and Natural Resource Manager