Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters—and to whom.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
02 May 2017
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780231178808
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
Extinction Studies collects haunting and haunted multivoiced stories that echo together in a vibrant plea for an ethic of care, lucidity, and obstinate, stammering hope. We need such stories to make us feel and think with the unraveling of a world we inherit and share together with innumerable entangled forms and ways of life. We need them also to repopulate our devastated imaginations and to help us escape the twin easy temptations of nihilist despair and blind confidence.
Deborah Bird Rose is adjunct professor of environmental humanities at the University of New South Wales.
Thom van Dooren is associate professor of environmental humanities at the University of New South Wales.
Matthew Chrulew is a research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University.
Foreword, by Cary Wolfe
Introduction: Telling Extinction Stories, by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew
1. Walking with Okami, the Large-Mouthed Pure God, by James Hatley
2. Saving the Golden Lion Tamarin, by Matthew Chrulew
3. Extinction in a Distant Land: The Question of Elliot's Bird of Paradise, by Rick De Vos
4. Monk Seals at the Edge: Blessings in a Time of Peril, by Deborah Bird Rose
5. Encountering Leatherbacks in Multispecies Knots of Time, by Michelle Bastian
6. Spectral Crows in Hawai'i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance, by Thom van Dooren
Afterword: It Is an Entire World That Has Disappeared, by Vinciane Despret
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