Les « bonnes » et les « mauvaises » proliférantes

Abstract

Cécilia Claeys, "Good" and "Bad" Proliferating Species: Controversies in Camargue A territorialized approach is taken to controversies about so-called invasive or proliferating species. Camargue in France is an international symbol of a "wilderness" even though it has come out of several centuries of human toil. The controversy there about these species has exacerbated to the point of making the anthropocentrism/biocentrism dualism sharper and paradoxical. Whereas, for biocentric reasons, naturalists have taken part in a chain of interventions and thus become allies with their "natural" enemies -hunters and fishers -the avant-garde of landscape-developers are, for anthropocentric and aesthetic reasons, urging amateur gardeners to allow wild and domestic species to mix freely.