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 Contents
- 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
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