Extinction and Memorial Culture - Reckoning With Species Loss in the Anthropocene

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures.

List of contents

Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene 1. Layering Loss: A Conversation with Lucienne Rickard 2. Beginning and Endling: Archival Atmospheres, Extraction and the Case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s First Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove, or Specimen OR.030538 3. Listening to Lost Species: Memorialising Extinction through Sound 4. Entangled Extinctions and Cultural Resurgence 5. Edenic Extinction: Memorialising Lost Species across Timescales at the Eden Portland Project 6. Franklinia in the Garden: Memorializing Foliage, Preserving Heritage 7. Withnessing: Multispecies Approaches to Extinction, Testimony, and Bodies of Water 8. Conjuring Up Ghost Species: On Photography and Extinction 9. An Elegy for an Ecotype: Eva Saulitis’s Into Great Silence and the Extinction of the Chugach Transient Killer Whales 9. Lost Species, Lost Worlds: Memorialising Extinction in the Art of Todd McGrain and Chris Jordan 10. Psittacine Extinction Story: I Once Loved a Lorikeet

About the author

Hannah Stark is Associate Professor in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is the author of Feminist Theory After Deleuze (2016), the co-author (with Timothy Laurie) of The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures (2021), and the co-editor of Deleuze and the Non/Human (2015), and Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene (2016).

Summary

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah (University of Tasmania Stark
• Assisted by: Hannah Stark (Editor), Stark Hannah (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032326382
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232638-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; History, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, Social impact of environmental issues, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies