Flight Ways : : Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction / / Thom van Dooren.
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 in...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science and Law
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 14 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Telling Lively Stories at the Edge of Extinction
- One. Fledging Albatrosses: Flight Ways and Wasted Generations
- Two. Circling Vultures: Life and Death at the Dull Edge of Extinction
- Three. Urban Penguins: Stories for Lost Places
- Four. Breeding Cranes: The Violent-Care of Captive Life
- Five. Mourning Crows: Grief in a Shared World
- Epilogue: A Call for Stories
- Notes
- References
- Index