Description:
Extinction Studies focuses on the ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring how extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each chapter in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, and why it matters.
Brief description: Thom van Dooren is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia, 2014) and the coeditor (with Deborah Bird Rose and Matthew Chrulew) of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia, 2017).
Review Quotes: This book will interest those individuals who wish to deeply ponder the topic of extinction and its meaning and ramifications.-- "Choice"