Extinction Studies

Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
Herausgeber: Rose, Deborah Bird; Dooren, Thom Van; Chrulew, Matthew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Extinction Studies focuses on the ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring how extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each chapter in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, and why it matters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780231178815
• ISBN-10: 0231178816
• Artikelnr.: 47116364

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Contributors
Index