Decolonizing extinction : the work of care in orangutan rehabilitation / Juno Salazar Parreñas.

Format:

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822371946

0822371944

OCLC:

1167709388