Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction by Dooren, Thom Van
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction by Dooren, Thom Van

Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation...
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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction by Dooren, Thom Van

Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

$492.59
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction by Dooren, Thom Van

Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

$492.59
Author: Thom Van Dooren
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Thom Van Dooren
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 11/08/2016
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780231166195

About the Author
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).
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