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.
Table of Content
Foreword, by Cary Wolfe
Introduction: Telling Extinction Stories, by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew
1. Walking with Okami, the Large-Mouthed Pure God, by James Hatley
2. Saving the Golden Lion Tamarin, by Matthew Chrulew
3. Extinction in a Distant Land: The Question of Elliot’s Bird of Paradise, by Rick De Vos
4. Monk Seals at the Edge: Blessings in a Time of Peril, by Deborah Bird Rose
5. Encountering Leatherbacks in Multispecies Knots of Time, by Michelle Bastian
6. Spectral Crows in Hawai’i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance, by Thom van Dooren
Afterword: It Is an Entire World That Has Disappeared, by Vinciane Despret
Contributors
Index
About the author
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.
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