Oyster origin stories: How ‘native’ and ‘alien’ categories shape restoration in northwestern Europe

IF 1.5 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Veerle Boekestijn, Annet Pauwelussen
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Abstract

Restoration is gaining prominence as an approach to protect and rehabilitate marine ecologies in the Global North. It represents a shift from hands-off conservation to a more hands-on intervention to bring back species and habitats that are assumed to be degraded or lost. Understanding restoration as a practice of care illuminates the politics involved in how categorizations shape decisions about which forms of nature deserve rehabilitation. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2022, the authors explore these politics through examining oyster restoration in southeast England and the Netherlands. They show how efforts to restore the ‘native’ European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) in the North Sea starkly contrast with the categorization of Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) as unwanted ‘aliens’. Drawing from science and technology studies, they argue that such native/alien categorizations are not merely representational but performative, actively shaping the realities they purport to describe. They trace how the native-alien distinction developed historically and became tied to oyster restoration work across Europe's North Sea. Their analysis uncovers the values buried within decisions regarding which creatures belong in marine restoration and which do not. It shows how these categories determine which relationships between humans and marine creatures get included in restoration work.

牡蛎起源的故事:“本地”和“外来”类别如何影响欧洲西北部的恢复
在全球北方,恢复作为保护和恢复海洋生态的一种方法正日益受到重视。它代表了一种从不干涉保护到更实际干预的转变,以恢复被认为已经退化或失去的物种和栖息地。将修复理解为一种护理实践,阐明了分类如何决定哪些形式的自然值得修复所涉及的政治。根据2022年进行的实地调查,作者通过研究英格兰东南部和荷兰的牡蛎恢复来探索这些政治。他们展示了北海恢复“本地”欧洲平牡蛎(Ostrea edulis)的努力与太平洋牡蛎(长牡蛎)被归类为不受欢迎的“外来物种”形成鲜明对比。从科学和技术研究中,他们认为这种本土/外来分类不仅具有代表性,而且具有表演性,积极地塑造了他们声称要描述的现实。他们追踪了本土与外来物种的区别是如何在历史上发展起来的,并与整个欧洲北海的牡蛎恢复工作联系在一起。他们的分析揭示了决定哪些生物属于海洋恢复,哪些不属于海洋恢复的价值。它展示了这些类别如何决定人类和海洋生物之间的关系被纳入恢复工作。
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Anthropology Today
Anthropology Today ANTHROPOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines. Anthropology Today encourages submissions on a wide range of topics, consistent with these aims. Anthropology Today is an international journal both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.
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