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Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World

Edited by The Multispecies Editing Collective

The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.

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Arcadia

The Mystery of the Merganser

by Libby Robin

How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.

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Multimedia | book, full-text

Birds in Our Lives

Kothari, Ashish

Birds in Our Lives is an account of bird conservation in India, written by conservationist Ashish Kothari. It educates the reader on the importance of birds in Indian culture and economy and highlights the imminent threats to their habitats and populations, as well as growing efforts to conserve birdlife.

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Multimedia | journal article

"Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk: Techniques and Charms of Contiguity"

Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske

Petra Tjitske Kalshoven combines ethnographic studies with ornithological testimonies to present the re-creation and reenactment of the extinct great auk, or garefowl. The author aims to achieve contiguity with lost species through expressions and shaping of human perceptions and imaginations of past, and eventually future, environmental disasters.

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Pelicans: Protection, Pests, and Private Property

by Emily O’Gorman

Emily O’Gorman focuses on the Australian pelicans of South Australia’s Coorong region to examine how historical and contemporary ways of protecting these birds have been entangled with class politics, cross-cultural relationships, and the law.

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