Wild Dog Dreaming
Love and Extinction
$60.70
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
18 March 2013
Summary
We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth’s systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780813933597 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0813933595 |
| Author: | Deborah Bird Rose |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 18 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 149mm x 226mm |
| Series: | Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism |
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Critics Review
Wild Dog Dreaming is a remarkable book, animated by a searching intelligence and a deeply ethical spirit. In a time of extinction Deborah Bird Rose teaches us what is inextinguishable: our kinship with animals.
–David L. Clark, McMaster University[A] bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire.
– “Australian Animal Studies Bulletin”As seemingly hopeless as the task of halting anthropogenic extinctions is, [Rose] says she believes that it is ‘one toward which we owe an ethical response.’
– “Chronicle of Higher Education”Attuned to the complex harmonics in the howling of wild dingoes, Rose asks what it means to live and die in a time of escalating human-provoked mass extinctions. In her own practice, Rose shows us how to keep the stories rolling and rolling, winding around each other and us in the task of singing back the life and lives of the good earth. A wise and generative book.”
–Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of When Species MeetRose, an anthropologist, uses the dingo as a touchstone to explore ethical connectivity between human and nonhuman life…. A well-referenced, wide-ranging, and sometimes abstract dialogue between dreamtime stories and Western existentialist philosophy on life, death, kinships, and dualism with nonhuman life.
– “CHOICE”Deborah Bird Rose
Deborah Bird Rose
Professor in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation and Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture.
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