Overview
- Addresses the timely topic of what role new technologies play in 'saving' nature
- Has interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in science, technology and environmental politics
- Aims to reach an audience that includes scholars, graduate students and potentially upper-level undergraduates, and to appeal as well to an informed lay audience.
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This book considers the cultural history and politics of de-extinction, an approach to wildlife conservation that seeks to use advanced biotechnologies for genetic rescue, crisis interventions, and even species resurrections. It demonstrates how the genomic revolution creates new possibilities for human transformation of nature and accelerates the arrival of the era of life-on demand. Fletcher combines a summative overview of the modern progress in biology and biotechnology that has brought us to this moment and evaluates the relationship between de-extinction and provocative contemporary ideas such as rewilding, eco-modernism, and the Anthropocene. Overall, the book contends that de-extinction, as reported in the public sphere, shifts between the demands of science and spectacle and draws upon our ongoing fascination with lost worlds, Frankenstein’s monster, woolly mammoths, and dinosaurs.
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About the author
Amy Lynn Fletcher is an Associate Professor of Political Science at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She specializes in science, technology and environmental politics. She is an Associate Editor for Politics and the Life Sciences and Features Editor of Human Futures magazine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: De-Extinction and the Genomics Revolution
Book Subtitle: Life on Demand
Authors: Amy Lynn Fletcher
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25789-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25788-0Published: 23 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25789-7Published: 10 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 84
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general