Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures critically interrogates the discursive framing of extinctions and how they relate to the systems that bring about biocultural loss. The chapters in this multidisciplinary volume examine ecological and social preservation movements from a variety of fields, including environmental studies, literary studies, political science, and philosophy. Grounded in a de-colonialist approach, the contributors advocate for discourses of renewal grounded in Indigenous, counter-hegemonic, and de-colonialist frameworks which shift the discursive focus from ruin to regeneration.
Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures critically interrogates the discursive framing of extinctions and how they relate to the systems that bring about biocultural loss. The chapters in this multidisciplinary volume examine ecological and social preservation movements from a variety of fields, including environmental studies, literary studies, political science, and philosophy. Grounded in a de-colonialist approach, the contributors advocate for discourses of renewal grounded in Indigenous, counter-hegemonic, and de-colonialist frameworks which shift the discursive focus from ruin to regeneration.
Chapter One: Decolonize, ReIndigenize: Planetary Crisis, Biocultural Diversity, Indigenous Resurgence and Land Rematriation
Chapter Two: “The Word for Bringing Bodies Back from Water:” Black Oceanic Ecopoetics and the Re-Imagining of Extinction
Chapter Three: Philosophizing Extinction: On the Loss of World, and the Possibility of Rebirth through Languages of the Sea
Chapter Four: What We Talk About When We Talk About Extinction
Chapter Five: Rat-Fall: Time and Taxa in the Colorado River Delta, c. 1900
Chapter Six: Contesting Extinction through a Praxis of Language Reclamation
Luis I. Prádanos is associate professor of Hispanic contemporary studies at Miami University.
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan is visiting assistant professor of Italian Studies at Miami University.
Suzanne McCullagh is assistant professor of philosophy at Athabasca University.
Catherine Wagner is professor of English at Miami University.
This dynamic book is an exciting and timely contribution to urgent
conversations in the environmental humanities and postcolonial and
ethnic studies about extinction. Rather than consider extinction as
a singular or future event, this interdisciplinary collection
explores temporally expansive settler-colonial extinctions in the
plural. Foregrounding Indigenous, Black, and decolonial responses,
the contributors trace a praxis of contestation to capital's
eradicating drive that is rooted in critical relationality.
This volume is a crucial addition to the growing field of
extinction studies. The editors and contributors elucidate how
contesting extinction means careful attention to both loss and
revitalization: It means finding new ways to write about animals,
plants, waters, and places; it means dismantling settler
colonialism and contributing to Indigenous resurgences; it means
practicing new ways of grieving and loving together in a
non-extractivist manner. These are powerful essays against erasure
and towards regenerative biocultural futures.
When the biomass associated with humans threatens to surpass that
of all other living biomass on the planet, observant people know
that humankind has fulfilled the biblical command to multiply and
subdue Earth. With the exception of a few pests that consume food
supplies (e.g., locusts), the human race has poisoned many insects
nearly out of existence, some, such as honeybees, essential to
human survival. In this anthology, six essays from the related
conference dissect various existing and anticipated outcomes of
human influence while also contesting the allegedly capitalistic
premise underlying the term Anthropocene.... The book is mainly
about historical or anticipated extinction of indigenous peoples
and languages--events not to be ignored, of course. The text does a
good job of documenting these. [A]ppropriate for use as a
supplementary text. Recommended... Upper-division undergraduates.
Graduate students.
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