Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species ‘conservation’ can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility."—Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
"Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation."—CHOICE
"An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts."—Human Geography
"An important book for anyone engaged in conservation."—Quarterly Review of Biology
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: After the Anthropocene
1. Wildlife: Companion Elephants and New Grounds for Multinatural Conservation
2. Nonhuman Charisma: Counting Corncrakes and Learning to Be Affected in Multispecies Worlds
3. Biodiversity as Biopolitics: Cutting Up Wildlife and Choreographing Conservation in the United Kingdom
4. Conservation as Composition: Securing Premodern Ecologies in the Hebrides
5. Wild Experiments: Rewilding Future Ecologies at the Oostvaardersplassen
6. Wildlife on Screen: The Affective Logics and Micropolitics of Elephant Imagery
7. Bringing Wildlife to Market: Flagship Species, Lively Capital, and the Commodification of Interspecies Encounters
8. Spaces for Wildlife: Alternative Topologies for Life in Novel Ecosystems
Conclusion: Cosmopolitics for Wildlife
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
