Jodi Frawley is a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia.

Iain McCalman is a Professorial Research Fellow in History, University of Sydney. He is Co-Director of the new Sydney University Environment Institute, Australia.

Part 1 SETTING THE SCENE 1. Ecologies: the nature/culture challenge Part 2 INVASION AND THE ANTHROPOCENE 2. Back Story: Migration, Assimilation, and Invasion in the Nineteenth Century 3. Fragments for a Postcolonial Critique of the Anthropocene: Invasion Biology and Environmental Security 4. Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Biography 5. Landscapes of the Anthropocene: from dominion to dependence? Part 3 EVERDAY LIFE IN INVASION ECOLOGIES 6. Living in a weedy future: insights from the garden 7. Experiments in the rangelands: white bodies and native invaders 8. Thorny problems: Industrial pastoralism and managing 'country' in Northwest Queensland, Australia Part 4 ECOLOGICAL POLITICS OF IMAGINING OTHERWISE 9. Prickly Pears and Martian Weeds: Ecological Invasion Narratives in the History and Fiction 10. Cane Toads: Animality And Ecology In Mark Lewis's Documentary Films 11. Wolvogs, Pigoons and Crakers-Invasion of the Bodysplices in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Part 5 UNRULY NATIVES AND EXOTICS 12. Invasion ontologies: venom, visibility and the imagined histories of arthropods 13. Naturalising Australian Trees in South Africa: Climate, Exotics and Experimentation 14. Remaking wetlands: rice fields and ducks in the Murrumbidgee River region, NSW 15.Invasion of the crocodiles