Extinction and Memorial Culture
Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
Published on 23. June 2023
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-1-032-32637-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars to consider how extinction is memorialised in museums and cultural institutions, through monuments, in literature and art, through public acts of ritual and protest, and in everyday practices.
In an era in which species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate, we must find new ways to engage critically, creatively, and courageously with species loss. Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene develops the conceptual tools to think in complex ways about extinctions and their aftermath, along with providing new insights into commemorating and mourning more-than-human lives.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, extinction studies, memorial culture, and the Anthropocene.
In an era in which species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate, we must find new ways to engage critically, creatively, and courageously with species loss. Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene develops the conceptual tools to think in complex ways about extinctions and their aftermath, along with providing new insights into commemorating and mourning more-than-human lives.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, extinction studies, memorial culture, and the Anthropocene.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
32 s/w Abbildungen, 32 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
32 Halftones, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
511 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-32637-5 (9781032326375)
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Person
Hannah Stark is Associate Professor in English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is the author of Feminist Theory After Deleuze (2016), the co-author (with Timothy Laurie) of The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures (2021), and the co-editor of Deleuze and the Non/Human (2015), and Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene (2016).
Content
Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene 1. Layering Loss: A Conversation with Lucienne Rickard 2. Beginning and Endling: Archival Atmospheres, Extraction and the Case of Aotearoa New Zealand's First Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove, or Specimen OR.030538 3. Listening to Lost Species: Memorialising Extinction through Sound 4. Entangled Extinctions and Cultural Resurgence 5. Edenic Extinction: Memorialising Lost Species across Timescales at the Eden Portland Project 6. Franklinia in the Garden: Memorializing Foliage, Preserving Heritage 7. Withnessing: Multispecies Approaches to Extinction, Testimony, and Bodies of Water 8. Conjuring Up Ghost Species: On Photography and Extinction 9. An Elegy for an Ecotype: Eva Saulitis's Into Great Silence and the Extinction of the Chugach Transient Killer Whales 9. Lost Species, Lost Worlds: Memorialising Extinction in the Art of Todd McGrain and Chris Jordan 10. Psittacine Extinction Story: I Once Loved a Lorikeet