{"id":646,"date":"2020-07-31T15:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=646"},"modified":"2020-08-18T15:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:59:37","slug":"online-book-talk-emily-wanderer-life-of-a-pest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/online-book-talk-emily-wanderer-life-of-a-pest\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Book Talk: Emily Wanderer, Life of a Pest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, August 17th at 16:00 CET, Emily Wanderer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh (USA), presented her book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book\/9780520302648\/the-life-of-a-pest\">The Life of a Pest: An Ethnography of Biological Invasion in Mexico<\/a><\/em> (University of California Press, 2020) in our Greenhouse online environmental humanities book talk series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Life of a Pest<\/em>\u00a0tracks the work practices of scientists in Mexico as they study flora and fauna at scales ranging from microscopic to ecosystemic. Amid concerns about climate change, infectious disease outbreaks, and biotechnology, scientists in Mexico have expanded the focus of biopolitics and biosecurity, looking beyond threats to human life to include threats to the animal, plant, and microbial worlds. Emily Wanderer outlines how concerns about biosecurity are leading scientists to identify populations and life-forms either as worthy of saving or as \u201cpests\u201d in need of elimination. Moving from high security labs where scientists study infectious diseases, to offices where ecologists regulate the use of genetically modified organisms, to remote islands where conservationists eradicate invasive species, Wanderer explores how scientific research informs, and is informed by, concepts of nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk: Wanderer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/448933556?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Book talk with Emily Wanderer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, August 17th at 16:00 CET, Emily Wanderer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh (USA), presented her book The Life of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Wanderer_cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}