Extinction Studies - Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Matthew Rose Chrulew, Deborah Bird (University of New South Wales) Rose, Deborah Bird Van Dooren Rose, Thom (EDT)/ Rose Van Dooren
• Assisted by: Matthew Chrulew (Editor), Matthew (Curtin University) Chrulew (Editor), Chrulew Matthew (Editor), Thom Van Dooren (Editor), Deborah B. Rose (Editor), Deborah Bird Rose (Editor), Deborah Bird (University of New South Wales) Rose (Editor), Rose Deborah Bird (Editor), Thom van Dooren (Editor), Wolfe Cary (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9780231178815
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17881-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, NATURE / Endangered Species, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Endangered species & extinction of species, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Endangered species and extinction of species