PAPER: Biotechnological Controls of "Pest Wasps"
URL: https://www.journal.mai.ac.nz/journal/mai-journal-2017-volume-6-issue-1
Bringing the "trickster wasp" into the discourse on biotechnological controls of "pest wasps"
May 2017
Mercier O 2017. Bringing the "trickster wasp" into the discourse on biotechnological controls of "pest wasps". MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship 6(1): 74-81.
ABSTRACT
Last year the New Zealand Government’s announcement of a “Predator Free NZ 2050” was accompanied by a target for a significant scientific breakthrough capable of eradicating at least one small mammalian predator by 2025. Strong responses and consolidation and repositioning activity ensued. A commonly agreed gap in our understanding is whether we, as a society, would allow the use of such a control, if it existed. Does a “social licence to operate” exist for the NZ scientific establishment? For the New Zealand Government, for that matter? The National Science Challenge funds a project that seeks to answer these questions, by exploring the “social and cultural” perceptions of biotechnological controls of German and common wasp populations. Here I present key considerations informing our framing and methodology for exploring this issue, including how Maamingidae, a native family of wasps, acts as a touchstone for considering what research into wasps adds to the broader discourse around pests.
KEYWORDS
biotechnology; wasps; social and cultural perceptions; tikanga
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