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Published as Chapter 11 in Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Heirarchies in a Multispecies World, Kathryn Gillespie & Rosemary-Claire Collard, eds.
The idea that every species should be assessed, ranked, and listed according to its projected risk of extinction is now a commonly accepted practice in conservation. Threatened species lists rank species in a linear progression from the least to the most endangered. This chapter explores the biopolitical nature of such lists. It shows how listing threatened species becomes a way to affirm — and justify — that life which is more and most important to save. The chapter argues that threatened species lists reinforce biopolitical differentiation not only between perceivably distinct nonhuman species but also between Homo sapiens and nonhuman species.
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Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Routledge
City
Abingdon
ISBN
9781138791503
First Page
184
Last Page
202
Disciplines
Environmental Law | Law
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Heirarchies in a Multispecies World on 1/23/2015, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Animal-Geographies-Politics-Intersections-and-Hierarchies-in/Gillespie-Collard/p/book/9781138791503.
Recommended Citation
Irus Braverman, En-Listing Life: Red is the Color of Threatened Species Lists in Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Heirarchies in a Multispecies World 184 (Kathryn Gillespie & Rosemary-Claire Collard, eds., Routledge 2015)