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Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

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Description for Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations Paperback. Editor(s): Rose, Deborah Bird; van Dooren, Thom; Chrulew, Matthew. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: PDA; PSAF; RNKH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters-and to whom.

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178815
SKU
V9780231178815
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About Thom (Ed Van Dooren
Deborah Bird Rose is adjunct professor of environmental humanities at the University of New South Wales. Thom van Dooren is associate professor of environmental humanities at the University of New South Wales. Matthew Chrulew is a research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University.

Reviews for Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
Extinction Studies collects haunting and haunted multivoiced stories that echo together in a vibrant plea for an ethic of care, lucidity, and obstinate, stammering hope. We need such stories to make us feel and think with the unraveling of a world we inherit and share together with innumerable entangled forms and ways of life. We need them also to repopulate ... Read more

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