Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction (Under the Sign of Nature)
Deborah Bird Rose
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Paperback. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNK; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth’s systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom ... Read more
We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth’s systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813933597
SKU
V9780813933597
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99-1
About Deborah Bird Rose
Deborah Bird Rose, Professor in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University, Sydney, is the author of Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation and Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture.
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