Shimmer: Flying-Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril (Animalities) - Softcover

Rose, Deborah Bird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474490395 ISBN 13: 9781474490399

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

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I was called to flying-foxes. My research questions led me into multispecies ethnographic work involving wildlife carers and academically trained scientists in eastern Australia. The people I met were at the front line in the work of holding flying-foxes back from the edge of extinction. I continued to visit the north, and I revisited my notebooks from several decades of research with Aboriginal people. The research was exhilarating, and then again at times deeply disheartening. I was to encounter more passion, intimacy, cruelty, horror, complexity, generosity and wild beauty than I could ever have imagined. Living with flying-foxes, I came to understand, takes us straight to the heart of every big question facing Earth life in the 21st century.' In this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before hear death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life - the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation - that flows across and between generations. Grounded within this insight, she develops and advocates for an ethics of attention that is in the world within everyday practices, and in this case for and with flying foxes and their worlds.

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Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018) was a world-renowned anthropologist and leading figure in the emergence and shaping of the interdisciplinary environmental humanities. Over the course of a career spanning almost 40 years, Rose published many widely read, cited, award-winning and often-reprinted books, including Hidden Histories (1991), Dingo Makes Us Human (1992), Nourishing Terrains (1996), Country of the Heart (2002), Reports from a Wild Country (2004) and Wild Dog Dreaming (2011). She also edited numerous significant volumes, including Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions (1988), Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene (2015), and Extinction Studies(2017), and co-founded the journal Environmental Humanities. Through this work Rose made major contributions in a range of important fields: from the environmental humanities, and the anthropology of indigenous Australia, to extinction studies, animal and multispecies studies, and philosophies of ethics, justice, religion, temporality and place. Rose was a Fellow of the Australian Social Sciences Academy (ASSA) and was for most of her career based at the Australian National University (1995–2008) and Macquarie University (2008–2013).

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‘Rose entices us all to care about the often despised, sometimes loved, and now comprehensively threatened flying foxes of Australia. Perhaps they have a materially better chance of a future because Rose was a flying fox woman, a human being who used the hard-earned power to tie together Aboriginal teaching and kinship, settler science, and everyday complexities of caring and responding to others of truly different kinds that is carried on by ordinary people. I love Rose’s work; I love this book.’Donna J. Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz‘Deborah Bird Rose’s last book is a message shimmering with the passion, intimacy, cruelty, horror, complexity, generosity and wild beauty she encountered responding to the call of flying foxes. It powerfully affirms knowledge as co-becoming, a commitment to become knowledgeable witnesses and responsible participants in the intricate mutualistic giving and receiving that make up earth life. A unique and vital legacy.’Isabelle Stengers, Université libre de Bruxelles‘Shimmer is an inspiring and moving tour de force. Love, care, ethics, connectivity, and crucially non-innocence are the analytical-affective intentions with which Deborah Bird Rose experiences and makes us experience flying-foxes and the myriad blossoms they enable as they meet Aboriginal wisdom, science, the state, and the biosphere. Reading this book, being inspired by it, has been an honor, an immense pleasure, and a complex beam of hope.’Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis‘Gifted to us at the precipice of her death, Deborah Bird Rose’s Shimmer embodies everything we have valued about her writing—its calm and uncompromised ethical compass; its fidelity to Indigenous worlds and their more than human kin; and its arts of care for forms of existence, here the majestic worlds of flying foxes, declared enemies of settler expansion. Shimmer will hold a precious place in her singular corpus.’Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia UniversityProfessor Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018) was a world-renowned anthropologist and leading figure in the emergence and shaping of the interdisciplinary environmental humanities.Cover image: Fruit Bats or flying foxes over Cairns in Queensland, Australia © Ashley Cooper/Getty ImagesCover design: Bekah Dey and www.hayesdesign.co.uk[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-9038-2 [PPC]ISBN 978-1-4744-9039-9 [cover]Barcode

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• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474490395
• ISBN 13: 9781474490399
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
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