Provocations from the Field - Extinction, Encountering and the Exigencies of Forgetting
Stories of species extinction interpellate and legitimate each other, accumulating, in a discrete and synchronous order, a coherent history of extinction that allows them to be utilised in scientific and historical discourses as authoritative signs. These stories also translate and inscribe social a...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:asj-1275 2023-05-15T17:34:06+02:00 Provocations from the Field - Extinction, Encountering and the Exigencies of Forgetting De Vos, Rick 2017-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/2 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1275&context=asj unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/2 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1275&context=asj free_to_read Animal Studies Journal Art and Design Arts and Humanities Australian Studies Creative Writing Digital Humanities Education Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies Film and Media Studies Fine Arts Philosophy Social and Behavioral Sciences Theatre and Performance Studies article 2017 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T12:00:48Z Stories of species extinction interpellate and legitimate each other, accumulating, in a discrete and synchronous order, a coherent history of extinction that allows them to be utilised in scientific and historical discourses as authoritative signs. These stories also translate and inscribe social and cultural encounters, however, where groups of different human and nonhuman animals interacted and made sense of these interactions. Great auks, for example, possess stories that exceed the overdetermining official account of their extinction, having endured for at least one hundred thousand years learning and passing on the skills to live and flourish in the North Atlantic, co-existing with and surviving the actions of diverse groups of humans and other predators, and countless changes to the environment around them. Encountering extinction, that is, taking the deaths of entire groups of animals and their future generations back to those moments of encounter and contact, and those spaces of translation and interpretation, opens these times and spaces up to the possibilities of other relationships and perspectives, and other subjectivities and interpretations, including those of animals connected to a past preceding and far exceeding that of the dominant narrative. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online |
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Stories of species extinction interpellate and legitimate each other, accumulating, in a discrete and synchronous order, a coherent history of extinction that allows them to be utilised in scientific and historical discourses as authoritative signs. These stories also translate and inscribe social and cultural encounters, however, where groups of different human and nonhuman animals interacted and made sense of these interactions. Great auks, for example, possess stories that exceed the overdetermining official account of their extinction, having endured for at least one hundred thousand years learning and passing on the skills to live and flourish in the North Atlantic, co-existing with and surviving the actions of diverse groups of humans and other predators, and countless changes to the environment around them. Encountering extinction, that is, taking the deaths of entire groups of animals and their future generations back to those moments of encounter and contact, and those spaces of translation and interpretation, opens these times and spaces up to the possibilities of other relationships and perspectives, and other subjectivities and interpretations, including those of animals connected to a past preceding and far exceeding that of the dominant narrative. |
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Provocations from the Field - Extinction, Encountering and the Exigencies of Forgetting |
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