LEADER 03718nam 2200577 450 001 9910826391703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-53744-1 024 7 $a10.7312/vand16618 035 $a(CKB)2550000001298346 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001248623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1634826 035 $a(DE-B1597)458533 035 $a(OCoLC)879610816 035 $a(OCoLC)880403754 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537445 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1634826 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10871711 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL608764 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001298346 100 $a20140527h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFlight ways $elife and loss at the edge of extinction /$fThom van Dooren ; cover photo, Wayne Kryduba ; cover design, Mary Ann Smith 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (x, 193 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 225 1 $aCritical perspectives on animals 311 $a0-231-16618-4 311 $a1-306-77513-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Telling Lively Stories at the Edge of Extinction -- $tOne. Fledging Albatrosses: Flight Ways and Wasted Generations -- $tTwo. Circling Vultures: Life and Death at the Dull Edge of Extinction -- $tThree. Urban Penguins: Stories for Lost Places -- $tFour. Breeding Cranes: The Violent-Care of Captive Life -- $tFive. Mourning Crows: Grief in a Shared World -- $tEpilogue: A Call for Stories -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aA leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity.Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world-the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world. 410 0$aCritical perspectives on animals. 606 $aBirds$xExtinction 615 0$aBirds$xExtinction. 676 $a598.138 700 $aVan Dooren$b Thom$f1980-$01430921 702 $aKryduba$b Wayne 702 $aSmith$b Mary Ann 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826391703321 996 $aFlight ways$93571149 997 $aUNINA