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Extinction Studies

Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017

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Extinction Studies asks what extinction means to diverse global communities. Essays focus on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which this event catastrophically interrupts life's gifts of time, death, and generations, opening up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world.

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Thom van Dooren is senior lecturer in environmental studies, environmental humanities, and philosophy, and Deborah B. Rose is adjunct professor in environmental humanities at the University of New South Wales. Matthew Chrulew is a research fellow at Curtin University.

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Brett Buchanan, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of the Environment at Laurentian University:

The studies contained in this volume cross species and kingdom boundaries, and are full of hope just as much as grief and mourning. In bearing witness to the lives of species that are functionally and/or already extinct, the authors present multiple modes of response and responsibility for those of us who remain.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Foreword

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    Cary Wolfe
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    Introduction: Telling Extinction Stories

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    Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew
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    1. Walking with Ōkami, the Large-Mouthed Pure God

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    James Hatley
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    2. Saving the Golden Lion Tamarin

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    Matthew Chrulew
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    3. Extinction in a Distant Land: The Question of Elliot’s Bird of Paradise

    89
    Rick De Vos
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    4. Monk Seals at the Edge: Blessings in a Time of Peril

    117
    Deborah Bird Rose
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    5. Encountering Leatherbacks in Multispecies Knots of Time

    149
    Michelle Bastian
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    6. Spectral Crows in Hawai’i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance

    187
    Thom van Dooren
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    Afterword: It Is an Entire World that Has Disappeared

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    Vinciane Despret
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    Contributors

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    Index

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June 12, 2017
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9780231544542
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208
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https://doi.org/10.7312/van-17880
eBook ISBN: 9780231544542
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