Anna-Katharina Laboissiere

• Laboissiere, Anna-Katharina (2026). Moving plants and designing Earth otherwise with assisted migration. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. 176. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104797. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper develops an analysis of assisted migration, a controversial proposal to move endangered species beyond their native range to follow current or projected climatic shifts, as a technology for ecosystem engineering and a discourse mobilising terraforming imaginaries. Terraforming serves as a metaphorical lens through which the manipulation of space and landscape via managed biomobilities can be foregrounded, and the rhetoric and experimental attempts of conservation biologists and ecologists engaged as sketches for multiple alternative natures and version of Earth yet to come. It shows how assisted migration develops in the context of simultaneously threatened and proliferating nonhuman migration and how, in response to the challenging weirding of anthropogenic ecologies, it has shifted from providing refugia to single threatened species to an ecosystem engineering technology. As a mobility- and landscape-modifying proposal, assisted migration projects are marked by baselining strategies that engage a variety of planetary pasts to legitimate future interventions, providing different visions of what a recreated, anthropogenic “Earth-likeness” might mean on a compromised planet. The paper identifies three contemporary and emerging modes of conjuring different Earths in assisted migration experiments: an eco-modernist reliance on the tools of industrial landscape management, an eco-spectral conjuring of past geological and climatic versions of the planet, and an eco-continuist mobilisation of past and discredited processes of Indigenous landscape modifications.

• Laboissiere, Anna-Katharina (2026). Prehistoric Routes and Oracular Invasives: Assisted Migration as a Revival and Divination Technology. Configurations. ISSN 1063-1801. 34(1), s. 73–73. doi: 10.1353/con.2026.a981316. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  ABSTRACT: This article brings into conversation the question of species revival and projects of assisted migration. It engages the question of assisted migration—the translocation of species threatened by climate change to ranges outside of their natural distribution—as a surprising or overlooked technology for species revival, more specifically the revival and creation of migratory routes and movements rather than individual bodies. Its central argument is that de-extinction is a project that comes to bear not only on cells and bodies but also on the circulatory, geographic, and cultural aspects of a given species. The article closes on a speculative perspective, imagining invasive, migrating species as oracular in order to enrich the imaginary of species revival.

• Laboissiere, Anna-Katharina (2025). The Time of Hybrid Corals. Laboratory Experiments in Extinction and Survival, Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies. Routledge. ISSN 9781003398486. s. 92–100. doi: 10.4324/9781003398486. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter examines the enactment, modelling and management of death, extinction, and resilience in a coral assisted evolution experiment conducted at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (Van Oppen et al. 2015). This project seeks to selectively breed more resilient corals – either by mixing genomes within one species or by attempting various forms of interspecies hybridisations – that could resist the effects of catastrophic increases in water temperature and acidity. The chapter will analyse how the project disjoints and reroutes the temporal trajectories of corals, themselves already queer and multimodal subjects (Hayward 2010), and intervenes into their deaths. Hybrid corals sit at a mutable border between life and death, promising both the unsettling possibility of ‘immortal mules’ and the regenerative potential of extending the collaborative deaths (Rose 2011) upon which robust reefs are built. This chapter examines these two opposing figurations of hybrid corals and how evolutionary histories of coral hybridisation are mobilised to justify and naturalise contemporary scientific interventions into the life and death of endangered species.

• Laboissiere, Anna-Katharina (2023). Speculative Conservation and Assisted Evolution: Interventions in Extinction Timescapes. I Nielsen, May-Brith Ohman (Red.), Toxic Timescapes. Examining Toxicity across Time and Space. Ohio University Press. ISSN 9780821425039. s. 328–352. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Laboissiere, Anna-Katharina (2019). Collect, Save, Adapt: Making and Unmaking Ex Situ Worlds. Cultural Studies Review. ISSN 1446-8123. doi: 10.5130/csr.v25i1.6380. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Reinert, Hugo; Dooren, Thomas Francis van; Chrulew, Matthew & Laboissiere, Anna-Katharina (2023). Workshop: "Speculation as method in the environmental humanities". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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