Flight Ways : Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
Thom. van Dooren
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Columbia University Press, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (207 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Telling Lively Stories at the Edge of Extinction; 1. Fledging Albatrosses: Flight Ways and Wasted Generations; 2. Circling Vultures: Life and Death at the Dull Edge of Extinction; 3. Urban Penguins: Stories for Lost Places; 4. Breeding Cranes: The Violent-Care of Captive Life; 5. Mourning Crows: Grief in a Shared World; Epilogue: A Call for Stories; Notes; References; Index. - 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 alba
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| ISBN | 9780231166188
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