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Author:   Alexandra Palmer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367182885

ISBN 10:   0367182882
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   12 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: To Save is to Sacrifice Approach Methodology What Are Ethics? Conservation, Welfare, Liberation Triage and Trade-Offs Roadmap Chapter 1: Orangutans and their Conservation Orangutans: A Natural and Cultural History Conservation: The Old, the New, and the Ugly Pancasila and Palm Oil: Conservation in Indonesia Orangutans as Tourism Mascots: Conservation in Malaysian Borneo ""Please Don’t Set Up Any More!"" The NGO Network Orangutans in the Anthropocene Chapter 2: Kill, Incarcerate, or Liberate? Alternatives to Reintroduction Orangutan Reintroduction: Conservation Tool or Cry in the Wilderness? Replenishing Wild Populations: A Post-Hoc Argument? Forest Restoration and Protection: Reintroduction as Political Incentive for Conservation Law Enforcement: Is Trade a Cause of Consequence of Orangutan Endangerment? Ignoring Displaced Wildlife ""Breaks the Hearts of People"": Educational Benefits of R&R Freedom isn’t Free: The Cost-(In)effectiveness of R&R Killing What Counts as Euthanasia? Personhood and Penance: Orangutan Rights and Human Responsibilities Sentience and Speciesism: The Ethics of Killing Orangutans Versus Other Species Incarceration Surplus and Scarcity: The Practical Problem of Housing Orphaned Orangutans Where is ""Home""? Orangutans and Nationality Life of Luxury or Prison? The Welfare Implications of Captivity Versus the Wild Integrity, Islam, and Independence: Wildness as Inherently Valuable Weighing Wildness and Welfare Chapter 3: What is a Rehabilitation Centre? Boundary-Work in Conservation What’s in a Name? The Preference for ""Rehabilitation Centre"" Over ""Sanctuary"" To Breed or Not to Breed? Distinguishing Rehabilitation Centres from Zoos Dehuminization and Dualisms: Defining Wildness Sustainability and Sacrifice: The Ethics of Wildlife Tourism A Tenuous Boundary? A Counter Example: Rehabilitation Centre or Release Site? Chapter 4: Sense and Sentimentality: Emotion in Environmental Ethics Eyes and PIEs: The Development of Ethical Stances Feelings and Facts: The Relationship Between Emotion and Rationality Selfishness and Sacrifice: Two Specific Worries About Emotion in Orangutan Conservation Triage and Trouble: More Thought, Not Less Emotion Chapter 5: No Space on the Ark: Triage in Wildlife Rescue Selecting Citizens: Sacrifice and Speciesism in Admission Practices Creating Two Problems, or Solving One? The Dilemma of Translocation The Sliding Scale Chapter 6: Wild, Well, or Free? Ethical Debates in Rehabilitation Methods Motherly or Tough Love? Negotiating Human-Orangutan Boundaries in Rehabilitation Persevering Purity or Process? Mixing Taxa at Release Sites Defining Unreleasability: Training, Trauma, and Triage Wild Abandon(ment): The Challenges of Post-Release Monitoring The ""Grey Zone"": Healthcare and the Transition to Wildness Free or Enslaved? Post-Release Feeding and the Question of Free Will Who is the Expert? Chapter 7: Bosses, Baddies, and ""Baby Huggers"": The Ethics of Conservation Fundraising Oversight and Ownership: Relationships with Foundations and Donor-NGOs Palm Oil and Other Dirty Money Playing to the ""Baby Huggers"": Cuteness and Commodification Expertise and Ethics: Two Worries About Fundraising Chapter 8: The ""Dark Side"": (Un)ethics and Whistleblowing in Conservation My Orangutan, Your Orangutan: Narratives of Collaboration and Conflict Public or Private Secrets? The Ethics of Whistleblowing Should Outsiders Speak Out? Conclusion: Ethics in the Anthropocene References Interviews Index"

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"""Masterfully weaving together rich ethnographic fieldwork with poignant scholarly analysis, Ethical Questions in Orangutan Conservation is a must-read for scholars and practitioners who are willing to stay with the trouble and to consider the real-life dilemmas of saving while sacrificing nonhuman animals in the Anthropocene."" - Irus Braverman, author of Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink ""Via a thoroughly anthropological lens Palmer takes us through the biopolitics of orangutan conservation and much, much more. Her theme of triage and her deft interweaving of multiple intellectual and methodological threads produces an engaging, highly complex, and totally fascinating view into core dilemmas of the Anthropocene."" - Agustín Fuentes, The Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology, Chair of the Department of Anthropology"

Masterfully weaving together rich ethnographic fieldwork with poignant scholarly analysis, Ethical Questions in Orangutan Conservation is a must-read for scholars and practitioners who are willing to stay with the trouble and to consider the real-life dilemmas of saving while sacrificing nonhuman animals in the Anthropocene. - Irus Braverman, author of Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink Via a thoroughly anthropological lens Palmer takes us through the biopolitics of orangutan conservation and much, much more. Her theme of triage and her deft interweaving of multiple intellectual and methodological threads produces an engaging, highly complex, and totally fascinating view into core dilemmas of the Anthropocene. - Agustin Fuentes, The Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology, Chair of the Department of Anthropology

Author Information

Alexandra Palmer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geography at the University of Oxford, with a background in social anthropology and primatology. Her work centres around ethical dimensions of human relationships with other animals, especially non-human primates. Ethical Debates in Orangutan Conservation is based on her doctoral work at University College London. Her other research has looked at zookeeper–orangutan relationships and ethics and regulation in non-laboratory animal research (including with wildlife).

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