Decolonizing Extinction
The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
1st Edition
Published on 9. August 2018
288 pages
978-0-8223-7194-6 (ISBN)
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Juno Salazar Parreñas traces the ways in which colonialism and decolonization shape relations between humans and nonhumans at a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center, contending that considering rehabilitation from an orangutan perspective will shift conservation biology from ultimately violent investments in population growth and toward a feminist sense of welfare.
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Juno Salazar Parreñas is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies & Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University and editor of Gender: Animals.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Decolonizing Extinction 1
Part I. Relations
1. From Ape Motherhood to Tough Love 33
2. On the Surface of Skin and Earth 61
Part II. Enclosures
3. Forced Copulation for Conservation 83
4. Finding a Living 105
Part III. Futures
5. Arrested Autonomy 131
6. Hospice for a Dying Species 157
Conclusion: Living and Dying Together 177
Notes 189
References 223
Index 255
Introduction: Decolonizing Extinction 1
Part I. Relations
1. From Ape Motherhood to Tough Love 33
2. On the Surface of Skin and Earth 61
Part II. Enclosures
3. Forced Copulation for Conservation 83
4. Finding a Living 105
Part III. Futures
5. Arrested Autonomy 131
6. Hospice for a Dying Species 157
Conclusion: Living and Dying Together 177
Notes 189
References 223
Index 255
