Unsettling Extinction

Name: Unsettling Extinction
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Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne, Germany), Ursula K. Heise (UCLA, USA), Professor Kate Rigby (University of Cologne, Germany)

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Bloomsbury Academic
06 August 2026

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Conservation of the environment

Series: Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the environmental humanities.

Biodiversity loss threatens to transform the ecological foundations of all biological life on the planet, yet solutions to this crisis are fiercely contested. This book addresses extinction – along with climate change, the most urgent environmental crisis of the twenty-first century - by exploring species decline and conservation with a particular emphasis on divergent cultural framings, temporal scales, and media.

Contributors explore what ethical guidelines underlie acceptable and unacceptable ways of interacting with plants and animals, what social, aesthetic, and affective perceptions and meanings are attributed to particular species, how human-nonhuman relations are construed as part of a particular social order and which species are considered worth conserving, and at what cost.

Drawing on the disciplines of anthropology, cultural geography, environmental history, philosophy, literary studies, media studies, and studies of religion, this book explores how the engagement with biodiversity loss challenges basic assumptions in these disciplines and opens up new avenues of thought and activism for shaping the multispecies communities of the future.

Edited by: Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne Germany), Ursula K. Heise (UCLA, USA), Professor Kate Rigby (University of Cologne, Germany)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781350598461
ISBN 10: 1350598461
Series: Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 06 August 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for Unsettling Extinction

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. * Willis Jenkins, Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities and Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics, University of Virginia, USA. *