Decolonizing Extinction : the work of care in orangutan rehabilitation
Parrenas, Juno Salazar
Decolonizing Extinction : the work of care in orangutan rehabilitation / Juno Salazar Parreñas - Durham : Duke University Press, ©2018 - xv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps :24ccm.
Introduction: decolonizing extinction --
From ape motherhood to tough love --
On the surface of skin and earth --
Forced copulation for conservation --
Finding a living --
Arrested autonomy --
Hospice for a dying species --
Conclusion: living and dying together.
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Southeast Asian history, gender studies, queer theory, and science and technology studies, Parreñas suggests that examining workers' care for these semi-wild apes can serve as a basis for cultivating mutual but unequal vulnerability in an era of annihilation. Only by considering rehabilitation from perspectives thus far ignored, Parreñas contends, could conservation biology turn away from ultimately violent investments in population growth and embrace a feminist sense of welfare, even if it means experiencing loss and pain.
9780822370772
International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Zoology
Animals
Mammalia (Mammals)
Orangutans -- Borneo.
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
Orangutans.
Wildlife rehabilitation.
599.8830 PAR
Decolonizing Extinction : the work of care in orangutan rehabilitation / Juno Salazar Parreñas - Durham : Duke University Press, ©2018 - xv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps :24ccm.
Introduction: decolonizing extinction --
From ape motherhood to tough love --
On the surface of skin and earth --
Forced copulation for conservation --
Finding a living --
Arrested autonomy --
Hospice for a dying species --
Conclusion: living and dying together.
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Southeast Asian history, gender studies, queer theory, and science and technology studies, Parreñas suggests that examining workers' care for these semi-wild apes can serve as a basis for cultivating mutual but unequal vulnerability in an era of annihilation. Only by considering rehabilitation from perspectives thus far ignored, Parreñas contends, could conservation biology turn away from ultimately violent investments in population growth and embrace a feminist sense of welfare, even if it means experiencing loss and pain.
9780822370772
International Book Distributors :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Zoology
Animals
Mammalia (Mammals)
Orangutans -- Borneo.
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
Orangutans.
Wildlife rehabilitation.
599.8830 PAR
