Revenant Ecologies - Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation

"Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Arguing that Western conservation approaches not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence, Audra Mitchell fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives"--

About the author

Audra Mitchell is professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Political Ecology at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University. Mitchell is author of International Intervention in a Secular Age: Re-enchanting Humanity? and Lost in Transformation: Violent Peace and Peaceful Conflict in Northern Ireland and is coeditor of Hybrid Forms of Peace: From the Everyday to Post-liberalism.

Product details

• Authors: Audra Mitchell
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2024
• EAN: 9781517906818
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0681-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering