Arrivals and Departures The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity.

This book explores the human relationship to changing biodiversity by bringing together multidisciplinary insights into human-nature relations from the humanities. New animal and plant species arrive and previously existing ones may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Latva, Otto
Other Authors: Lähdesmäki, Heta, Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi, Uusitalo, Harri
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Human Relationship with the Changing Biodiversity
  • Part I: Belonging and Non-Belonging
  • 1 "It is Like Diving in a Pea Soup": The Development of the Relationship between Humans and Blue-Green Algae in Finland in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
  • 2 Entangled Endangerments: "Revitalising the Gray Whale and its Hunt"
  • 3 Franklinia Alatamaha: Here and Gone in the Anthropocene
  • 4 Negotiating Belonging in Multispecies Cities: Rats, Birds and Humans as Neighbours in the City of Helsinki
  • Part II: Emotions
  • 5 Love and Loss: Corals and Cultural Sustainability in Caribbean Popular Romance Novels
  • 6 The White-Tailed Eagle on the Brink of Extinction in Twentieth-Century Finland: A Digital Approach to Emotional Responses in the Media
  • 7 Emotions of Contested Migrations: The Return of the Wolf across the Polish-German Border
  • Part III: Environmental Policy
  • 8 Nature Conservation as a More-Than- Human World: From Managerial to Ecological Thinking
  • 9 Blow It Up for the Birds: Neoliberal Protection in Franzen's Freedom
  • 10 Shallow Sustainability as Progressive Environmental Policy: An Ecolinguistic and Ecofeminist Reading of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's 2018 Wildlife Strategy Report
  • Index