An Endangered Menagerie
Alongside the incredible loss of plant and animal lives in the 2019-2020 bushfire season, a range of endangered species were pushed closer to the edge of extinction. As the impacts of climate change intensify into ...
Extinction and Ethics
New audio documentary: The disappearing voice of the forest
This week we published a new audio documentary that tells the story of the ongoing decline and extinction of Hawai’i’s incredible land snails. The piece explores the diverse ways in which these often overlooked creatures ...
Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction
A new collection of short essays in “Theorizing the Contemporary” on the Cultural Anthropology website, edited by Ursula Münster, Thom van Dooren, Sara Asu Schroer, and Hugo Reinert.
Educating ravens, and other stories/essays
I published a short article today in The Atlantic on “educational” approaches to conservation that aim to teach “problematic” animals new ways of living – rather than fencing them out or killing them. This article ...
A howling lamentation
This text, co-authored with Isabelle Stengers, is a preface for the forthcoming French translation of Deborah Bird Rose’s Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction.
Curating with care: A response to Michael Wang’s “Extinct in the Wild”
This blog post is the text of a short article written for the magazine of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, focused on Extinct in the Wild, an incredible project by the American artist Michael Wang.
New Book : Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
I’m delighted to announce that our new book is now out: Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations. This collection was co-edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and myself, and published by Columbia ...
Multispecies Studies (edited collection)
This week our new special issue on “Multispecies Studies” appeared in Environmental Humanities. The issue was co-edited by six of us: Thom van Dooren, Ursula Münster, Eben Kirksey, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew and Anna ...
Two exciting French translations
I’m very happy to announce two recent French translations of my writing.
On Ferals
This blog post is the text of a discussant paper that I was delighted to deliver at the 2015 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in a panel called Gaia Strikes Back: Feral Landscapes of ...