Is extermination to be the legacy of Mary Gilbert’s cat?

Once imported to Australia as rodent controllers, cats are now regarded as responsible for a second wave of mammal extinction across the continent. Utilising the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, we investigate critically the institutional field of cat regulation in Australia, exemplified by the W...

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Published in:Organization (London, England) England), 2016-05, Vol.23 (3), p.387-406
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