Abstract
Day geckos of the genus Phelsuma are small green lizards, originating in the Western Indian Ocean. As curious and cosmopolitan animals, they were and are involved in flows of translocal circulation, intertwining human and nonhuman agency in shaping their environments in significant
ways – despite their obvious smallness. Transforming from scientific specimen into species, into terrarium pet, and then further into either endangered and invasive species, Phelsuma geckos co-create living rooms, taxonomic collections, island gardens and nature reserves, particularly
between Europe and the islands of the Western Indian Ocean. Their value, as this article demonstrates, constantly transforms as they move between places. I will explore how the 'world-making' of scientists, tourists, traders, and curious geckos is entangled in these circulations that contribute
to environmental destruction and protection. Differences and transformations in the nature of value, and the value of nature along the paths on which species circulate, I argue, are important as product and shaping-power of local and global world-making projects.
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,History,Global and Planetary Change
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