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Taylor & Francis Endangerment Biodiversity and Culture 2015 Edition by Fernando Vidal, Nelia Dias
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. Table of contents :- Introduction: The Endangerment Sensibility Fernando Vidal and Nelia Dias Part 1: Affects and Values 1. "Languages Die Like Rivers:" Entangled Endangerments in the Colorado Delta Shaylih Muehlmann 2. Extinction, Diversity, and Endangerment David Sepkoski 3. Anthropological Data in Danger, c. 1941-1965 Rebecca Lemov Part 2: Situated Politics 4. Conserving the Future: UNESCO Biosphere Reserves as Laboratories for Sustainable Development Stefan Bargheer 5. Indigenous Evanescence and Salvage in the Conquest of Araucania, 1850-1930 Stefanie Ganger 6. Tropical Forests in Brazilian Political Culture: From Economic Hindrance to Ecological Treasure Jose Augusto Padua Part 3 Technologies of Preservation 7. Endangered Birds and Epistemic Concerns: The California Condor Etienne Benson 8. World Heritage Listing and the Globalization of the Endangerment Sensibility Rodney Harrison 9. Planning for the Past: Cryopreservation at the Farm, Zoo, and Museum Joanna Radin Coda Who is the "We" Endangered by Climate Change? Julia Adeney Thomas