Unsettling Extinction

Roman Bartosch is Full Professor of Teaching Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Teaching in the Humanities at the University of Cologne, Germany.Ursula K. Heise is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA.Kate Rigby is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities at the University of Cologne, Germany.

• IntroductionRoman Bartosch (University of Cologne, Germany), Ursula Heise (UCLA, USA) Kate Rigby(University of Cologne, Germany)Section 1: Unsettling Histories1. Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now, Kyle Powys White(University of Michigan, USA)2. Military Snails, Thom van Dooren (University of Sydney, Australia)3. Extinction as Cultural Heritage, Dolly Jørgensen(University of Stavanger, Norway)Section 2: Unsettling Narratives4. Extinction and Experience in Digital Eco-Games, Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne, Germany) and Julia Hoydis (University of Graz, Austria)5. Coextinction? The Southern Resident Killer Whales in Culture and Science, Greg Garrard(UBC Okanagan, Canada)6. Will Revery Alone Do? A (Mono)cultural Narrative of Bee Decline, Eline Tabak (University of Oulu, Finland)Section 3: Unsettling Boundaries7. Speaking in Spores, Sicily Fiennes (University of Leeds, UK), Graham Huggan (University of Leeds, UK), Stefan Skrimshire (University of Leeds, UK), and Serena Turton-Hughes (University of Leeds, UK)8. Multispecies Influenza, Natasha Fijn (The Australian National University, Australia)9. Animal domestication, genealogies of exile, and the long Anthropocene, Linda Williams (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)Section 4: Unsettling Ethics10. ‘Bees for Peace’, Carrie Dohe (University of Cologne, Germany) and Kate Rigby (University of Cologne, Germany)11. Detectives on an Alien Planet, Ursula Heise (UCLA, USA)12. Should Humanity Live Forever? Human Extinction and Biodiacritics, Ted Toadvine (Pennsylvania State University, USA)AfterwordRichard Kerridge(Bath Spa University, UK)

Curating a conversation across geography and discipline, this incisive set of essays makes a critical intervention in extinction studies and draws together lines of scholarship that help everyone in the environmental humanities work better with concepts of temporality, humanity, and animality.