The Wake of Crows - Living and Dying in Shared Worlds

The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Worlds with Crows
Experimenting
1. Interjecting Crows: Enacting Multispecies Communities. Brisbane, Australia
Stealing
2. Spectral Crows: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance. The Big Island, Hawai'i
Cooperating
3. Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene. Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fumigating
4. Recognizing Ravens: Becoming Subjects Together. Mojave Desert, United States
Gifting
5. Provisioning Crows: Cultivating Ecologies of Hope. Rota, Mariana Islands
Afterword: In the Wake of Typhoons
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Thom van Dooren is associate professor at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia, 2014) and coeditor of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia, 2017).

Summary

The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world.

Additional text

The Wake of Crows demonstrates yet another way that the humanities are integral to resisting species loss and plotting practices of living well together...holding open more inclusive ways of being at the edge of extinction requires the brave and urgent scholarship that animates [this book].

Product details

• Authors: Thom Van Dooren
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780231182829
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18282-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law; Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law; Critical Perspectives on Anima
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; NATURE / Animals / Birds, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, The environment, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest