Decolonizing Extinction : The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation Paperback / softback
by Juno Salazar Parrenas
Part of the Experimental Futures series
Paperback / softback
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In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo.
Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care.
Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Southeast Asian history, gender studies, queer theory, and science and technology studies, Parreñas suggests that examining workers’ care for these semi-wild apes can serve as a basis for cultivating mutual but unequal vulnerability in an era of annihilation.
Only by considering rehabilitation from perspectives thus far ignored, Parreñas contends, could conservation biology turn away from ultimately violent investments in population growth and embrace a feminist sense of welfare, even if it means experiencing loss and pain.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 7 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:20/08/2018
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- ISBN:9780822370772
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 7 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:20/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822370772