Contesting Extinctions

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

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