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9%OFFJamie Lorimer - Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature - 9780816681082 - V9780816681082
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Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature

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Description for Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15. BIC Classification: RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.

Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange to be human, too captive to truly be wild, but too wild to be domesticated—where do elephants fall in our understanding of nature?

In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife inhabits everywhere and is on the move; Lorimer proposes the concept of ... Read more

Imagining conservation in a world where humans are geological actors entangled within and responsible for powerful, unstable, and unpredictable planetary forces, this work nurtures a future environmentalism that is more hopeful and democratic.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816681082
SKU
V9780816681082
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About Jamie Lorimer
Jamie Lorimer is associate professor of geography and the environment at Oxford University.

Reviews for Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature
"Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species ‘conservation’ can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility."—Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self "Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of ... Read more

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