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Decolonizing extinction : the work of care in orangutan rehabilitation / Juno Salazar Parreñas.
Loaned to Another Library QL737.P94 P37 2018
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parreñas, Juno Salazar, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Experimental futures
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orangutans--Borneo.
- Orangutans.
- Wildlife rehabilitation--Borneo.
- Wildlife rehabilitation.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Borneo.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Juno Salazar Parreñas traces the ways in which colonialism and decolonization shape relations between humans and nonhumans at a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center, contending that considering rehabilitation from an orangutan perspective will shift conservation biology from ultimately violent investments in population growth and toward a feminist sense of welfare.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Decolonizing extinction
- From ape motherhood to tough love
- On the surface of skin and earth
- Forced copulation for conservation
- Finding a living
- Arrested autonomy
- Hospice for a dying species
- Conclusion: Living and dying together.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Parreñas, Juno Salazar, 1979- Decolonizing extinction.
- ISBN:
- 9780822370772
- 0822370778
- 9780822370628
- 082237062X
- OCLC:
- 1007575342
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