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The Life of a Pest tracks 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 “pests” 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.

Social policy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Nature protection --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Mexico --- Biopolitics --- axolotl. --- biodiversity. --- biology. --- biopolitics. --- biosecurity. --- buen vivir. --- conservation. --- ecology. --- ecosystem. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- geci. --- goats. --- guadalupe. --- immunology. --- invasive species. --- land management. --- latin america. --- mexico. --- mice. --- microbes. --- microbiology. --- native species. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- nonhuman animals. --- pollution. --- salamander. --- science. --- virus. --- vivir bien. --- vivir mejor. --- whalers. --- wildlife. --- zoology.

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The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that wreaks carnage today, as carbonization threatens our very climate. Powering Empire argues that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. How did this black rock come to have such long-lasting power over the world economy? Focusing on the flow of British carbon energy to the Middle East, On Barak excavates the historic nexus between coal and empire to reveal the political and military motives behind what is conventionally seen as a technological innovation. He provocatively recounts the carbon-intensive entanglements of Western and non-Western powers and reveals unfamiliar resources—such as Islamic risk-aversion and Gandhian vegetarianism—for a climate justice that relies on more diverse and ethical solutions worldwide.

Coal trade --- Political aspects. --- History. --- age of empire. --- alternative energy. --- carbon energy. --- carbon. --- carbonization. --- climate change. --- climate justice. --- coal mines. --- coal. --- colonialism. --- conservation. --- decarbonization. --- empire. --- energy. --- environment. --- environmental history. --- environmentalism. --- fossil fuels. --- gandhi. --- geopolitics. --- global warming. --- globalization. --- imperialism. --- india. --- islam. --- land management. --- middle east. --- natural resources. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- pollution. --- public policy. --- science. --- social justice.