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Author:   Jamie Lorimer
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780816681082

ISBN 10:   0816681082
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: After the Anthropocene 1. Wildlife: Companion Elephants and New Grounds for Multinatural Conservation 2. Nonhuman Charisma: Counting Corncrakes and Learning to Be Affected in Multispecies Worlds 3. Biodiversity as Biopolitics: Cutting Up Wildlife and Choreographing Conservation in the United Kingdom 4. Conservation as Composition: Securing Premodern Ecologies in the Hebrides 5. Wild Experiments: Rewilding Future Ecologies at the Oostvaardersplassen 6. Wildlife on Screen: The Affective Logics and Micropolitics of Elephant Imagery 7. Bringing Wildlife to Market: Flagship Species, Lively Capital, and the Commodification of Interspecies Encounters 8. Spaces for Wildlife: Alternative Topologies for Life in Novel Ecosystems Conclusion: Cosmopolitics for Wildlife Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation. --CHOICE An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts. --Human Geography An important book for anyone engaged in conservation. --Quarterly Review of Biology Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species 'conservation' can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility. --Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation. CHOICE An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts. Human Geography Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species conservation can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility. Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation. --CHOICE An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts. --Human Geography Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species 'conservation' can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility. --Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation. CHOICE An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts. Human Geography Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species conservation can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility. Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation. -CHOICE An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts. -Human Geography An important book for anyone engaged in conservation. -Quarterly Review of Biology Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species `conservation' can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility. -Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species 'conservation' can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility. --Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

Author Information

Jamie Lorimer is associate professor of geography and the environment at Oxford University.

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