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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction Hardback - 2014

by Thom Van Dooren

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A 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.

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  • Title Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
  • Author Thom Van Dooren
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Publication date 2014-06-03
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780231166188 / 0231166184
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Birds - Extinction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013044351
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.138

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Citations

  • Choice, 03/01/2015, Page 1177
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2014, Page 138
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/21/2014, Page 0

About the author

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 the coeditor (with Deborah Bird Rose and Matthew Chrulew) of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia, 2017).
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