Thom van Dooren

The Wake of Crows

Living and Dying in Shared Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world.

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780231182829
• ISBN-10: 0231182821
• Artikelnr.: 55390791

Autorenporträt

Thom van Dooren is associate professor at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia, 2014) and coeditor of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Worlds with Crows
Experimenting
1. Interjecting Crows: Enacting Multispecies Communities. Brisbane,
Australia
Stealing
2. Spectral Crows: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance. The Big
Island, Hawai'i
Cooperating
3. Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene. Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fumigating
4. Recognizing Ravens: Becoming Subjects Together. Mojave Desert, United
States
Gifting
5. Provisioning Crows: Cultivating Ecologies of Hope. Rota, Mariana Islands
Afterword: In the Wake of Typhoons
Notes
References
Index