Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-74356-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of urgency and citizenship, identifying endangered entities involves evaluating an impending threat and opens the way for preservation strategies.

Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture looks at some of the fundamental ways in which this process involves science, but also more than science: not only data and knowledge and institutions, but also affects and values. Focusing on an "endangerment sensibility," it encapsulates tensions between the normative and the utilitarian, the natural and the cultural. The chapters situate that specifically modern sensibility in historical perspective, and examine central aspects of its recent and present forms.

This timely volume offers the most cutting-edge insights into the Environmental Humanities for researchers working in Environmental Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology and Science and Technology Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vidal, Fernando

Dias, Nélia

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Endangerment Sensibility Part 1: Affects and Values 1. "Languages Die Like Rivers:" Entangled Endangerments in the Colorado Delta 2. Extinction, Diversity, and Endangerment 3. Anthropological Data in Danger, c. 1941-1965Rebecca Lemov Part 2: Situated Politics 4. Conserving the Future: UNESCO Biosphere Reserves as Laboratories for Sustainable Development 5. Indigenous Evanescence and Salvage in the Conquest of Araucanía, 1850-1930 6. Tropical Forests in Brazilian Political Culture: From Economic Hindrance to Ecological Treasure Part 3 Technologies of Preservation 7. Endangered Birds and Epistemic Concerns: The California Condor 8. World Heritage Listing and the Globalization of the Endangerment Sensibility 9. Planning for the Past: Cryopreservation at the Farm, Zoo, and Museum Coda Who is the "We" Endangered by Climate Change?

Über Autor(innen)

Fernando Vidal is ICREA Research Professor (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) at the Center for the History of Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Nélia Dias is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal.