"This is seriously thought-provoking and challenging material, and it may be essential to understand it if we want to save orangutans from ourselves." - John R. Platt (The Revelator) "Impactful. . . .  Juno S. ParreÑas details diverse assumptions and expectations participants bring to this complex network, thereby generating a unique and timely addition to the conservation literature. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - L. K. Sheeran (Choice) "<i>Decolonizing Extinction</i> is essential reading for anyone with the ambition to do multispecies ethnography well. It’s also a beautiful and moving book that struggles with the ethical weight of ethnography as a mode of knowledge production." - Gabriel N. Rosenberg (Radical History Review) "[This book] excels in these tricky in-between places: in meetings between species, between temporalities, between bodies, between genders, between sexes, and across divergent positions within colonial histories and presents. ParreÑas tracks meetings across difference with the best kind of ethnographic sensitivity." - Rosemary Collard (Society & Space) "<i>Decolonizing Extinction</i> offers a compelling example of why feminism is well suited and positioned to take on issues related to animals, as well as how gender relations of power are necessarily embedded in human-animal relations, and in turn broader process of colonization and arrested autonomy." - Alice Hovorka (Society & Space) "The book brilliantly weaves discussions about broader socio-political transformations and norms alongside very careful and detailed accounts of the everyday practices and interactions between orangutans and people." - Krithika Srinivasan (Society & Space) "A powerful, thought-provoking, and touching account of the quotidian nature of mass extinction." - Becky Mansfield (Society & Space) "ParreÑas’s <i>Decolonizing Extinction</i> is a beautifully written book, in which she uses a case study of orangutan rehabilitation on Borneo to weave together many complex analytic threads: gender, race, and labor; care, violence, and freedom; liberalism and neoliberalism; the geological past, the colonial present, and the prospect of a different future." - Rebecca Lave (Society & Space) “With <i>Decolonizing Extinction</i>, Juno Salazar ParreÑas gives us a groundbreaking and beautifully written multispecies ethnography that explores the entwined lives of human and nonhuman primates. Deftly combining primatology, political ecology, and postcolonial and feminist theory, her book will interest biological and cultural anthropologists alike and has the potential to foster deeper cross-disciplinary engagement.” - Genese Marie Sodikoff (American Ethnologist)

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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Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Decolonizing Extinction  1
Part I. Relations
1. From Ape Motherhood to Tough Love  33
2. On the Surface of Skin and Earth  61
Part II. Enclosures
3. Forced Copulation for Conservation  83
4. Finding a Living  105
Part III. Futures
5. Arrested Autonomy  131
6. Hospice for a Dying Species  157
Conclusion: Living and Dying Together  177
Notes  189
References  223
Index  255
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822370772
Publisert
2018-08-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, UP, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
277

Biografisk notat

Juno Salazar ParreÑas is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies & Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University and editor of Gender: Animals.