ABSTRACT

The article addresses the issue of invasive non-native species in Britain and its proximate cultural and political implications. Notably, it charts the co-option of this issue by sections of the nationalist press since the escalation of the European migrant crisis in 2015 and their strategic metaphorical alignment of human and extra-human migration, particularly in the period surrounding the Brexit referendum. These reports serve as the basis for a wider conjunctural analysis; assessing contemporary figurations of nature in nationalist ideology, the ideological importance of such metaphor framing techniques, and the common speculation that climate anxieties are being displaced onto new forms of anti-immigrant racism. Contextualizing the reports against a broader history of deploying metaphors of ‘abject nature’ in xenophobic and racist discourse, the article traces the outline of an emergent politics of abjection shaped by historically specific constructions of both race and nature.

摘要

这篇文章讨论了英国入侵性非本地物种的问题及其直接的文化和政治影响。值得注意的是，它描绘了自 2015 年欧洲移民危机升级以来民族主义媒体部分对该问题的共同选择，以及人类和超人类移民的战略隐喻一致性，特别是在英国脱欧公投期间。这些报告可作为更广泛的形势分析的基础；评估民族主义意识形态中的当代自然形象，这种隐喻框架技术的意识形态重要性，以及气候焦虑正在被转移到新形式的反移民种族主义上的普遍猜测。将报告与在仇外和种族主义话语中部署“卑鄙自然”隐喻的更广泛历史联系起来，