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Contesting extinctions : decolonial and regenerative futures / edited by Luis I. Prádanos [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCullagh, Suzanne M.
- Series:
- Environment and society.
- Environment and Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extinction (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Contesting Extinction Narratives
- Contesting the "Anthropocene"
- Contesting Extinction Temporalities
- Contesting Extinctions through Critical Relationality
- Contesting Extinctions as a Collaborative Practice
- Contesting Extinctions and Fostering Regenerative Futures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 1: Decolonize, ReIndigenize: Planetary Crisis, Biocultural Diversity, Indigenous Resurgence, and Land Rematriation
- The Anthropocene's Colonial Roots: Indigeneity and Biocultural Diversity Undermined
- Biocultural Diversity and Climate Change: Indigenous Peoples as Keystone Cultures
- Curating Territories of Life
- Keystone Biocultures across Abya-Yala/Turtle Island
- Necropolitics of Biocultural Loss: Colonialism and the Genocide-Ethnocide-Ecocide Nexus
- In Lieu of Conclusion: Decolonization and Re-Indigenization-Not Inclusion: (Colonial) Equivocations on "Biocultural Diversity" and "Indigenous Knowledges" in Global Environmental/Climate Politics
- Chapter 2: "The Word for Bringing Bodies Back from Water": Black Oceanic Ecopoetics and the Re-Imagining of Extinction
- Chapter 3: Philosophizing Extinction: On the Loss of World and the Possibility of Rebirth through Languages of the Sea
- Extinction and Loss of World and Home
- From a Narrative of Death and Extinction toward a Narrative of Aquatic Revitalization
- The Language of the Sea, the Dutch Caribbean, and Glissant
- Languages of the Sea
- Chapter 4: What We Talk About When We Talk About Extinction
- It's Our Geological Epoch, and We'll Cry if We Want To
- What's Love Got to Do with It?
- Better to Have Loved and Lost?
- Some Conclusions.
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Rat-Fall: Time and Taxa in the Colorado River Delta, c. 1900
- Gentle Art, Rough Magic
- My Name Is Oryzomys
- Chapter 6: Contesting Extinction through a Praxis of Language Reclamation
- Colonialism in Linguistics and in the Endangered Languages Movement
- Erasing Invasive Concepts, Restoring Indigenous Concepts
- myaamiaatawiaanki Kati: Relational Narratives for Regenerative Futures
- Conclusion
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40756-0
- 979-88-8188-085-9
- 1-7936-5282-1
- OCLC:
- 1285168794
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