Thom van Dooren is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He is the author of
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia, 2014) and the coeditor (with Deborah Bird Rose and Matthew Chrulew) of
Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia, 2017).
8 Ebooks by Thom van Dooren
Thom van Dooren: Flight Ways
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and et …
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€27.99
Thom van Dooren: The Wake of Crows
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many sp …
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€38.99
Thom van Dooren & Deborah Bird Rose: Extinction Studies
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, …
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€35.99
van Dooren Thom van Dooren: Vulture
Simply because they are large scavenging birds, vultures are often viewed as harbingers of death. But, as Thom van Dooren shows in this cultural and natural history, that dominant association leaves …
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€24.92
Emma Kowal & Joanna Radin: Cryopolitics
The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing …
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€99.93
Katharina Alsen & Jennifer Bloise: Tierliche Zukünfte
Sowohl in der Kulturszene als auch in den Wissenschaften und in allgemeingesellschaftlichen Debatten haben Zukunftsdiskurse Konjunktur. Literatur, Film, Kunst, aber auch Politik, Philosophie und …
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€14.00
Thom van Dooren: World in a Shell
Following the trails of Hawai’i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction.In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet …
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€74.44
