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Thom van Dooren

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Care: Some musings on a theme

Care: Some musings on a theme

July 19, 2014December 10, 2021

This short paper was written for a collaborative project that is working to develop a lexicon for the environmental humanities (yet to be published). It

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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

July 5, 2014December 10, 2021

My new book, Flight Ways, is now out. You can read more about the book here. It is available for sale from all of the

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Undoing Forever – CBC Ideas

Undoing Forever – CBC Ideas

June 20, 2014December 10, 2021

I participated in this fascinating radio documentary on de-extinction and the resurrection of extinct species. The program includes a range of scientists and a little

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Vulture lovers of the world unite!

Vulture lovers of the world unite!

June 13, 2014December 10, 2021

Please sign this petition to help protect Europe’s vultures.

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Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene

Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene

June 7, 2014January 2, 2022

I’m very excited to announce a symposium to be held in Stockholm later this year: “Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Environmental

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Back from the brink – an interview on ABC Radio National

Back from the brink – an interview on ABC Radio National

April 30, 2014December 10, 2021

On Monday morning I appeared on a short program on the ABC Radio National program ‘Life Matters‘. We talked about extinction, conservation and ethics. You

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Some forthcoming papers: conservation and extinction

Some forthcoming papers: conservation and extinction

March 23, 2014December 10, 2021

For the last couple of years my research on ethics, extinction and conservation has focused on Hawai’i, and the Hawaiian crow (or alala) in particular.

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Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

Talking about the Environmental Humanities and Hawaiian Crows

January 18, 2014December 10, 2021

Here’s a link to a recent interview I did with Jan Oosthoek as part of the Exploring Environmental History podcast (number 58, 18 Jan 2014).

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Sanguine Moon – It’s arrived…

Sanguine Moon – It’s arrived…

December 20, 2013December 10, 2021

Our new print has finally arrived. Titled Sanguine Moon by American artist Margaret Barnaby, it’s a wood block print of two Alala (Hawaiian crows) perched

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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction

December 9, 2013December 10, 2021

In celebration of the recently released cover for my new book, I’ve posted a little description of it here. The book is forthcoming with Columbia

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I acknowledge the traditional custodians of Country in Australia,
including the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples of the Blue Mountains where I live,
and the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation where the University of Sydney is located.

I pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging
and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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