Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Climate Change and the Ecological Collapse of the Anthropocene
How do we come to know these profoundly unknowable animals? And then how do we sort of actually go about trying to regulate the way in which they live. We have a duty of care as humans to protect them from extinction, like this very double edged aspect to it came together to me and, eh, and this actually comes together in one of the corp arguments. It's something that for me, is very, very important er for this book. I want to argue that,. you know, these profound questions of endangerment or extinction of wonderfule species like tigers, lions and leopards, cannot and should not be divorced from serious consider s of the state of politics at local
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