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Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations

Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations

We have now finalised our new edited collection: Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations, to be published by Columbia University Press in May

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Ethics in the Field: How far should we go to bring back lost species?

Ethics in the Field: How far should we go to bring back lost species?

Translocation, captive breeding, somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning), back-breeding, gene and seed banking—the list goes on. Today, there are a whole range of different technologies

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Encountering Crows: Living with wildlife in a changing world

Encountering Crows: Living with wildlife in a changing world

Thom van Dooren: I am currently beginning work on a new 3-4 year research project focused on crows around the world. Below are a few

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Wildlife, Climate Change and Mass Death

Wildlife, Climate Change and Mass Death

Deborah Rose: January 2014 – Australia has just come through its hottest year on record, and the new year is bringing ever more record breaking

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Keeping Faith with Death: Mourning and De-extinction

Keeping Faith with Death: Mourning and De-extinction

This post was written by Thom van Dooren and Deborah Rose. It is the text of a short presentation delivered at “Dangerous Ideas in Zoology,”

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Zombie Politics and the Lives of Animals

Zombie Politics and the Lives of Animals

Deborah Rose: Virtues are easily lost, the cynics tell us, but vices linger remorselessly. Indeed, vice-like habits can take on a life of their own

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Reflection on the Anthropocene

Reflection on the Anthropocene

Thom van Dooren: I recently wrote a short reflective piece on the anthropocene, prompted by an encounter with an albatross. ____ “As we approached this

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Why More-than-Human Participatory Research?

Why More-than-Human Participatory Research?

Michelle Bastian: This is an excerpt from a post that originally appeared on the More-than-Human Participatory Research project blog, which explores the theory behind the

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Part of the feast: The life and work of Val Plumwood

Part of the feast: The life and work of Val Plumwood

A celebration of the life and legacy of Australian environmental philosopher Val Plumwood, who was almost killed by a saltwater crocodile in Kakadu National Park

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The last snail: conservation and extinction in Hawai’i

The last snail: conservation and extinction in Hawai’i

Thom van Dooren: As I stood in the presence of this individual, the last of a species, I was reminded of how incredibly ill equipped

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About Us: We are a group of humanities scholars dedicated to the future of life in this time of extinctions. Our historical moment is one of unprecedented loss of planetary forms of life. Our research and writing is situated in a lively practice that emerges from our entanglement in these processes of loss. Read more here.

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