Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters--and to whom. -- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Cary Wolfe -- Introduction : telling extinction stories / Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew -- 1. Walking with Ōkami, the large-mouthed pure god / James Hatley -- 2. Saving the golden lion tamarin / Matthew Chrulew -- 3. Extinction in a distant land : the question of Elliot's bird of paradise / Rick De Vos -- 4. Monk seals at the edge : blessings in a time of peril / Deborah Bird Rose -- 5. Encountering leatherbacks in multispecies knots of time / Michelle Bastian -- 6. Spectral crows in Hawaiʻi : conservation and the work of inheritance / Thom van Dooren -- Afterword : It is an entire world that has disappeared / Vinciane Despret.