ABSTRACT This paper examines colonial legacies in human-nonhuman relations to off-centre empire in the Anthropocene. Imperial methods of collecting, preserving and displaying nature profoundly shaped species perception, which in turn affected the scientific attention and ecological relevance a species was granted. In particular, I reflect on the category of invasibility to show how empire sanctioned the mobility of specific population groups and animal species as border-crossing. This further shows how speciesist logics served to extend, maintain and legitimize imperial power. This analysis is relevant in the Anthropocene where invasibility is mobilised to police movement in the context of increased human and nonhuman migration. Further, I discuss how invasibility is considered as one of main threats for biodiversity, which may misdirect conservation efforts. Overall, the article examines the potential in human-nonhuman encounters to challenge colonial legacies. Based on an ethnographic example of multispecies homemaking with species considered invasive in (hetero)normative modes of intimacy and domesticity, I argue that colonial legacies of racialized, gendered and speciesist hierarchies can be disturbed by human-nonhuman relations of companionship, care and interdependence. Finally, I scale-up the analysis to the landscape, by tracing the transformation of a former imperial wasteland in Vienna’s peripheral South from being perceived as economically and aesthetically worthless to a natural monument. Attending to multispecies entanglements is key here to understand the transformative process that led to the recovery of this wasteland. Here I off-centre empire by challenging anthropocentric narrations of how landscape transforms in favour of a narration that re-centres nonhuman agency. I argue that stories of wasteland recovery guided by nonhuman animals are crucial due to the increase in industrial wasteland and environmental degradation in the Anthropocene.

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人类中心的偏心帝国：走向多物种亲密关系和非人类生存因素

摘要本文研究了人类世间人类与非人类中心关系中殖民地遗留问题。皇家的收集，保存和展示自然的方法深刻地影响了物种的感知，进而影响了物种的科学关注度和生态相关性。我特别回顾一下入侵的类别，以表明帝国是如何批准特定人口群体和动物物种的流动作为跨界的。这进一步表明了种姓主义逻辑如何扩展，维护和使帝国权力合法化。这种分析与人类世有关，在人类和非人类迁徙增加的背景下，入侵活动被调动到警察的行动中。此外，我讨论了如何将入侵性视为对生物多样性的主要威胁之一，这可能会误导保护工作。总体而言，本文探讨了人类与非人类相遇挑战殖民地遗产的潜力。基于人种学的多品种家庭制作实例，该物种被视为以（规范）亲密和家养方式入侵的物种，我认为种族，性别和物种主义等级制的殖民地遗产可能会受到人与人之间的伙伴关系，照料和相互依存关系的干扰。最后，我通过追踪维也纳外围南部以前的帝国荒原的转变，将其从经济和美学上被视为毫无价值的自然纪念碑转变为景观。在这里，了解多种物种的纠缠是了解导致荒原恢复的转型过程的关键。在这里，我通过挑战以人类为中心的关于景观如何变化的叙述，而偏向于整个帝国，而偏向于以非人类机构为中心的叙述。我认为，由于人类开阔的工业荒地和环境退化，非人类动物引导荒地恢复的故事至关重要。