Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture [Paperback]

The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of urgency and citizenship, identifying endangered entities involves evaluating an impending threat and opens the way for preservation strategies.

Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culturelooks at some of the fundamental ways in which this process involves science, but also more than science: not only data and knowledge and institutions, but also affects and values. Focusing on an endangerment sensibility, it encapsulates tensions between the normative and the utilitarian, the natural and the cultural. The chapters situate that specifically modern sensibility in historical perspective, and examine central aspects of its recent and present forms.

This timely volume offers the most cutting-edge insights into the Environmental Humanities for researchers working in Environmental Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology and Science and Technology Studies.

Introduction: The Endangerment Sensibility Fernando Vidal and N?lia Dias  Part 1: Affects andValues  1. Languages Die Like Rivers: Entangled Endangerments in the Colorado Delta Shaylih Muehlmann  2. Extinction, Diversity, and Endangerment David Sepkoski  3. Anthropological Data in Danger, c. 1941-1965 Rebecca Lemov  Part 2:Situated Politics  4. Conserving the Future: UNESCO Biosphere Reserves as Laboratories for Sustainable Development Stefan Bargheer  5. Indigenous Evanescence and Salvage in the Conquest of Araucan?a, 1850-1930 Stefanie G?nger&nl#L