Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

Herausgeber: Vidal, Fernando; Dias, Nélia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the notion of endangerment which stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them. It looks at some of the fundamental ways in which this process involves science, but also more than science: not only data and knowledge and institutions, but also affects and values. With a focus on endangerment sensibility, it encapsulates tensions between the normative and the utilitarian, the natural and the cultural.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138847415
• ISBN-10: 1138847410
• Artikelnr.: 42199626

Autorenporträt

Fernando Vidal is ICREA Research Professor (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) at the Center for the History of Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Nélia Dias is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Endangerment Sensibility Part 1: Affects and Values 1.
"Languages Die Like Rivers:" Entangled Endangerments in the Colorado Delta
2. Extinction, Diversity, and Endangerment 3. Anthropological Data in
Danger, c. 1941-1965Rebecca Lemov Part 2: Situated Politics 4. Conserving
the Future: UNESCO Biosphere Reserves as Laboratories for Sustainable
Development 5. Indigenous Evanescence and Salvage in the Conquest of
Araucanía, 1850-1930 6. Tropical Forests in Brazilian Political
Culture: From Economic Hindrance to Ecological Treasure Part 3
Technologies of Preservation 7. Endangered Birds and Epistemic Concerns:
The California Condor 8. World Heritage Listing and the Globalization of
the Endangerment Sensibility 9. Planning for the Past: Cryopreservation at
the Farm, Zoo, and Museum Coda Who is the "We" Endangered by Climate
Change?