{"product_id":"living-as-a-bird-9781509547265","title":"Living as a Bird","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They cannot bear the presence of other birds and begin to threaten and attack them if they cross a border, which might be invisible to human eyes but seems perfectly tangible to birds. Is this display of bird aggression just a pretence, a game that all birds play? Or do birds suddenly become territorial – and, if so, why?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy attending carefully to the ways that birds construct their worlds and ornithologists have tried to understand them, Despret sheds fresh light on the activities of both and, at the same time, enables us to become more aware of the multiple worlds and modes of existence that characterize the planet we share in common with birds and other species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“fascinating”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Environmental Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Without forgetting the dangers of violence and extinction, Despret’s writing always makes the world more generous, open, surprising, and generative. \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving as a Bird\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e inquires about and engages with “territory” and “territoriality” in exquisite specificity and concrete detail, exploring these birds, these writers and observers of birds, these sounds and calls, these rituals and affects. In the process, this potent little book describes and proposes a polyphonic score. Readers learn how to pay attention, to attend, to tune the senses and to open the imagination. What emerges are bird-rich, science-rich stories that are less deterministic, less self-satisfied with Explanation, more open to manoeuvre, both for birds and for humans who tune themselves to complex avian performances of their becoming in place.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna Haraway, Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First chord     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Territories   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The power to affect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Overpopulation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Second chord\u003cbr\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Possessions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aggression\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Polyphonic scores\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Counterpoint   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Postscripts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Poetic of Attention – Stéphane Durand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gathering up the knowledge which has fallen from the nest – Baptiste Morizot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040913555799,"sku":"9781509547265","price":37.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509547265.jpg?v=1750948266","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-as-a-bird-9781509547265","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}