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OverviewThe notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of urgency and citizenship, identifying endangered entities involves evaluating an impending threat and opens the way for preservation strategies. Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture 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. Focusing on an ""endangerment sensibility,"" it encapsulates tensions between the normative and the utilitarian, the natural and the cultural. The chapters situate that specifically modern sensibility in historical perspective, and examine central aspects of its recent and present forms.This timely volume offers the most cutting-edge insights into the Environmental Humanities for researchers working in Environmental Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology and Science and Technology Studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fernando Vidal (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) , Nélia Dias (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138743564ISBN 10: 1138743569 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 16 February 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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?"ReviewsThere are thousands of endangered species and hundreds of human cultures facing extinction along with the languages they have spoken. This fascinating book takes the reader along to delve into the reasons we are losing diversity and the many kinds of knowledge it could give us. How has politics made endangerment worse, or tried to prevent it? The wise authors of these chapters find examples from around the world and look at ways to preserve and revive what we might otherwise lose. This book raises interesting questions and is a dependable key to understanding. -J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, USA In this era of rapidly accelerating climate change, species extinction, and cultural vulnerability, endangerment has come to shape the science, politics, and emotions mobilized to archive and defend the fatally condemned. Endangerment, Biodiversity, and Culture is a timely volume that makes visible the undercurrent of loss animating work across the human and life sciences. -Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Fernando Vidal and Nelia Dias discuss, from the perspective of social anthropology and sciences studies, the notion of intrinsic value, which is highly debated in environmental humanities. They show that values emerge out of contested encounters between different relations to the environment, expressed through emotions and engagements. - Somatosphere, Frederic Keck, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale and head of the research department of the musee du quai Branly Author InformationFernando 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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