Extinction studies : stories of time, death, and generations / edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew.

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English
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  • New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    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. -- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword / Cary Wolfe
    • Introduction : telling extinction stories / Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew
    • Walking with Ōkami, the large-mouthed pure god / James Hatley
    • Saving the golden lion tamarin / Matthew Chrulew
    • Extinction in a distant land : the question of Elliot's bird of paradise / Rick De Vos
    • 4. Monk seals at the edge : blessings in a time of peril / Deborah Bird Rose
    • Encountering leatherbacks in multispecies knots of time / Michelle Bastian
    • Spectral crows in Hawaiʻi : conservation and the work of inheritance / Thom van Dooren
    • Afterword : It is an entire world that has disappeared / Vinciane Despret.
    ISBN
    • 9780231178808 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    • 0231178808 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    • 9780231178815 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    • 0231178816 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2016050679
    OCLC
    965805873
    Other standard number
    • 40027153688
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