Symons, Kate and Garlick, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7257-0430 (2020) Introduction to the special issue: Tracing geographies of extinction. Environmental Humanities, 12 (1). pp. 288-295.

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Abstract

According to the IUCN, we are living through a sixth mass-extinction event in the earth’s history – a period of biological annihilation. In the context of the contemporary attention given over to debates concerning the Anthropocene – as bonafide geological epoch, or perhaps a ‘boundary’ through which we must pass before entering into something better (or worse) – theorizing extinction, its processes, drivers and affects, in a manner that rejects the figure of the autonomous species so as to better reckon with the entangled nature-cultures of the present, has become a central objective of environmental scholarship across the humanities. In this special issue, we explore the ways in which engaging with geographic scholarship enhances understandings of, and responses to, species extinction.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142363
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > QH Natural history
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4127

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