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Published as Chapter 5 in Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death, Patricia J. Lopez & Kathryn A. Gillespie, eds.
“Is the Puerto Rican Worth Saving? The Biopolitics of Endangerment and Grievability” describes how threatened species lists elevate listed nonhuman species from the realm of biological life into that of a political life that is both worth saving and worth grieving. The chapter provides a novel perspective on the biopolitics of lists that highlights both their affirmative properties and their acute relevance for understanding the governance of entire nonhuman species.
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Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Routledge
City
Abingdon
ISBN
9781138805767
First Page
73
Last Page
94
Keywords
endangered species, conservation, biopolitics, captivity, grievability, legal ethnography, IUCN’s Red List for Threatened Species
Disciplines
Environmental Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Irus Braverman, Is the Puerto Rican Parrot Worth Saving? The Biopolitics of Endangerment and Grievability in Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death (Patricia J. Lopez & Kathryn A. Gillespie, eds., Routledge 2015).