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Anna Boswell

Anna Boswell
Writer and scholar living in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Rats: A Cautionary Tail

Hitchhikers and Stowaways

“Infection” describes the properties of settler knowledge and settler memory more than it does the properties of rats

April 4, 2023 • by Anna Boswell
In the event of European intervention in the Pacific, the introduction of northern-world rats was more likely to happen than not. ...

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