Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature

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In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene-an era in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on our planet-Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature and the politics of wildlife conservation.

Jamie Lorimer is associate professor of geography and the environment at Oxford University.

"Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species 'conservation' can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility."-Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self "Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation."-CHOICE "An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts."-Human Geography "An important book for anyone engaged in conservation."-Quarterly Review of Biology