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  • The Abyss Stares Back

    Encounters with Deep-Sea Life

    af Stacy Alaimo ...
    Serier serie Posthumanities
    In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea?As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo ... Læs mere

    190,49 kr.

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  • Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet

    Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, #1

    Serier Bog 1 - Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
    *Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of AnthologyVolume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of planetary relations: What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections, and of our profound longing for kinship?We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that ... Læs mere

    141,11 kr.

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Læs mere

    232,43 kr.

  • In the Shadow of the Palms

    More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

    af Sophie Chao ...
    With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to ... Læs mere

    197,36 kr.

  • Kin

    Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose

    Redigeret af Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew ...
    The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose’s work explored possibilities for ... Læs mere

    183,74 kr.

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Redigeret af Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Waves of Knowing

    A Seascape Epistemology

    In Waves of Knowing Karin Amimoto Ingersoll marks a critical turn away from land-based geographies to center the ocean as place. Developing the concept of seascape epistemology, she articulates an indigenous Hawaiian way of knowing founded on a sensorial, intellectual, and embodied literacy of the ocean. As the source from which Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) draw their essence and identity, the ... Læs mere

    176,86 kr.

  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    af Paige West ...
    Serier serie Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Læs mere

    256,49 kr.

  • Artist Animal

    af Steve Baker ...
    Serier serie Posthumanities
    Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal life, treating animals not for their aesthetic qualities or as symbols of the human condition but ... Læs mere

    204,49 kr.

  • Thinking with Water

    As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent ... Læs mere

    238,92 kr.

  • Whale Song

    Serier serie Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The sapiens of the sea, whales are the other intelligent, social, and loquacious animal. But they seem to swim away the more people chase after them in an effort to communicate and connect. Why does the meaning of their mesmerizing songs continue to elude us? In times of unprecedented ... Læs mere

    14,98 kr.

  • Extinction Studies

    Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

    Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range ... Læs mere

    256,49 kr.