Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters―and to whom.

Deborah Bird Rose is adjunct professor of environmental humanities at the University of New South Wales.

Thom van Dooren is associate professor of environmental humanities at the University of New South Wales.

Matthew Chrulew is a research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University.