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 of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters-and to whom.
Foreword, by Cary WolfeIntroduction: Telling Extinction Stories, by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew1. Walking with Okami, the Large-Mouthed Pure God, by James Hatley2. Saving the Golden Lion Tamarin, by Matthew Chrulew3. Extinction in a Distant Land: The Question of Elliot's Bird of Paradise, by Rick De Vos4. Monk Seals at the Edge: Blessings in a Time of Peril, by Deborah Bird Rose5. Encountering Leatherbacks in Multispecies Knots of Time, by Michelle Bastian6. Spectral Crows in Hawai'i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance, by Thom van DoorenAfterword: It Is an Entire World That Has Disappeared, by Vinciane DespretContributorsIndex