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The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah
Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental
humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and
obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close
engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of
Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored
possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental
justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous
teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences
to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded
in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that
hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual
frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional
objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay
tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore
her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still
enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The
Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford,
Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate
Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing,
Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright
The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah
Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental
humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and
obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close
engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of
Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored
possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental
justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous
teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences
to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded
in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that
hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual
frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional
objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay
tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore
her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still
enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The
Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford,
Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate
Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing,
Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright
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.
On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital
reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics,
ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for
security and power governs us as State. Our desire for possessions
governs us as Capital. Our desires imprison and rule us beings as
Unbeing. Yet, from Nagaland to New Zealand, Bhutan to Bolivia, a
second wave of anti-colonial revolutions has begun. Arising from
assemblies of humans and other-than-humans, these revolutions
replace possessive individualism with non-exploitative
interdependence. Naga elders, Bhutanese herders and other
indigenous communities, feminists, poets, seers, yaks, cranes,
vultures, and fungi haunt this pamphlet. The original Subaltern
Studies narrated how Indian peasant communities destroyed the
British empire. Subaltern Studies 2.0 prophesies the multi-being
demos and liberates Being from Unbeing. Re-kin, Re-nomad,
Re-animate, Re-wild! The Animist Revolution has come. Â
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom
van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural
sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and
ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other
meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the
particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing
philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the
experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of
Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North
Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of
penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping
cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the
book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from
the world-the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to
implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren
intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on
the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking
care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his
studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local
communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer
abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully
realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of
life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability
toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical
islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated
cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many
species of crow are doing well: their intelligent and adaptive ways
of life have allowed them to thrive amid human-driven
transformations. Indeed, crows are frequently disliked for their
success, seen as pests, threats, and scavengers on the detritus of
human life. But among the vast variety of crows, there are also
critically endangered species that are barely hanging on to
existence, some of them the subjects of passionate conservation
efforts. The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives
of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren
asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world. He
explores contemporary possibilities for shared life emerging in the
context of ongoing processes of globalization, colonization,
urbanization, and climate change. Moving among these diverse
contexts, this book tells stories of extermination and extinction
alongside fragile efforts to better understand and make room for
other species. Grounded in the careful work of paying attention to
particular crows and their people, The Wake of Crows is an effort
to imagine and put into practice a multispecies ethics. In so
doing, van Dooren explores some of the possibilities that still
exist for living and dying well on this damaged planet.
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom
van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural
sciences and his own ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural
and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other
meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the
particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing
philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the
experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of
Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North
Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of
penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping
cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the
book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from
the world -- the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to
implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren
intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on
the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking
care of their young and grieving their dead.He bolsters his studies
with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at
the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities
with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters
enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense
of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a
rapidly changing world.
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.
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