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Imagining Extinction

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Imagining Extinction

By Ursula K. Heise

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About the book

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention through stories and images that use the strategies of elegy, tragedy, epic, and even comedy. Imagining Extinction is the first book to examine the cultural frameworks shaping these narratives and images. Ursula K. Heise argues that understanding these sto...Show more

Endangered species and extinction of species

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ISBN

9780226358161

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Imagining Extinction

Format

Paperback

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