Decolonizing Extinction

The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

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ID8085337
AuthorsJuno Salazar Parreñas (0000-0003-1367-6491, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages288
Publication date2018-08-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDecolonizing Extinction (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822371946
OpenAlexW4245230012
Open LibraryOL34101794M
ISBN9780822371946
LanguageEN
Citations received129

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

Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · Creatures · Decolonization · Ethnology · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Geography · Natural (archaeology · Physical medicine and rehabilitation · Political science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Work (physics · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · Extinction (biology) · Human-animal relationships · Orangutans · Wildlife rehabilitation · Gender Studies · History · Paleontology · Rehabilitation

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