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Wildlife in the Anthropocene : Conservation after Nature by Jamie Lorimer (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

ISBN-100816681082

ISBN-139780816681082

eBay Product ID (ePID)203465823

Product Key Features

Number of Pages264 Pages

Publication NameWildlife in the Anthropocene : Conservation after Nature

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

SubjectLife Sciences / Ecology, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, Ecology, Animals / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Social Science, Science

AuthorJamie Lorimer

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-019919

Reviews"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, "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

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal333.72

Table Of ContentContents 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

SynopsisIn Wildlife in the Anthropocene , Jamie Lorimer argues that theidea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence ofhumans has come to an end. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene--anera in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on ourplanet--Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature andthe politics of wildlife conservation., Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange to be human, too captive to truly be wild, but too wild to be domesticated--where do elephants fall in our understanding of nature? In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife inhabits everywhere and is on the move; Lorimer proposes the concept of wildlife as a replacement for nature. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene--an era in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on our planet-- Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature and the politics of wildlife conservation. Wildlife in the Anthropocene examines rewilding, the impacts of wildlife films, human relationships with charismatic species, and urban wildlife. Analyzing scientific papers, policy documents, and popular media, as well as a decade of fieldwork, Lorimer explores the new interconnections between science, politics, and neoliberal capitalism that the Anthropocene demands of wildlife conservation. Imagining conservation in a world where humans are geological actors entangled within and responsible for powerful, unstable, and unpredictable planetary forces, this work nurtures a future environmentalism that is more hopeful and democratic.

LC Classification NumberQH75.L62 2015