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Revenant Ecologies
2024
Overview
Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to
articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties
about the future of the earth's ecosystems are fueling ever more
ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific
principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant
Ecologies , Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only
ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like
colonialism, racism, genocide, extractivism, ableism, and
heteronormativity, ultimately contributing to the destruction of
unique life forms and ecosystems.
Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and
biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies
and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant
Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical
enormity of global extinction. Mitchell offers an ambitious
framework-(bio)plurality-that focuses on nurturing unique,
irreplaceable worlds, relations, and ecosystems, aiming to
transform global ecological-political relations, including through
processes of land return and critically confronting discourses on
\"human extinction.\"
Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of
\"extinction,\" \"conservation,\" and \"biodiversity,\" Revenant
Ecologies fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence
studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives. It also
foregrounds the ways that multi-life-form worlds are actively
defying the forms of violence that drive extinction-and that shape
global efforts to manage it.
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
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ISBN
1517906814, 9781517906818, 9781452960555, 1452960550
