Contesting Extinctions

Luis I. Prádanos is professor of Hispanic contemporary studies at Miami University.Suzanne M. McCullagh is assistant professor of philosophy at Athabasca University. Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan is visiting assistant professor of Italian Studies at Miami University.Catherine Wagner is professor of English at Miami University.

This dynamic book is an exciting and timely contribution to urgent conversations in the environmental humanities and postcolonial and ethnic studies about extinction. Rather than consider extinction as a singular or future event, this interdisciplinary collection explores temporally expansive settler-colonial extinctions in the plural. Foregrounding Indigenous, Black, and decolonial responses, the contributors trace a praxis of contestation to capital's eradicating drive that is rooted in critical relationality.

• Chapter One: Decolonize, ReIndigenize: Planetary Crisis, Biocultural Diversity, Indigenous Resurgence and Land Rematriation Chapter Two: “The Word for Bringing Bodies Back from Water:” Black Oceanic Ecopoetics and the Re-Imagining of Extinction Chapter Three: Philosophizing Extinction: On the Loss of World, and the Possibility of Rebirth through Languages of the Sea Chapter Four: What We Talk About When We Talk About Extinction Chapter Five: Rat-Fall: Time and Taxa in the Colorado River Delta, c. 1900 Chapter Six: Contesting Extinction through a Praxis of Language Reclamation