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Subject(s)

• Orangutans—Borneo [Browse]
• Wildlife rehabilitation—Borneo [Browse]
• Human-animal relationships [Browse]

Series

• Experimental futures [More in this series]
• Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 9780822370772 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
• 0822370778 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
• 9780822370628 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
• 082237062X (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018004044

OCLC

1007575342

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