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Vulture Stories: Narrative and Conservation

Chapter of: Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene(pp. 51–55)

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TitleVulture Stories
SubtitleNarrative and Conservation
ContributorThom van Dooren(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0100.1.11
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/manifesto-for-living-in-the-anthropocene/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyrightvan Dooren, Thom
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2015-04-14
Long abstractVultures are never very far from death, never very far from the carcasses that they strip bare so cleanly and efficiently. Like all of Earth’s scavengers, they play a vital role in trans-forming waste and putrefaction into nourishment, creating a safer environment for so many other living things. Change and transformation are at the heart of their place in more-than-human communities—death becomes life again. And so, death is not a bad thing in any simple way: inside tangled processes of multi-species becoming, everyone is food for someone else, and nobody, no species, lives forever. And yet, in some cases we want to reject death, we want to say that there has been too much of it, or it has come too soon—again, both in the case of individuals and of species. This is a story about the vultures of India, but it is also an attempt to think through why one might tell stories in a time of extinction, what it might mean to make a storied stand for some deaths and not others.
Page rangepp. 51–55
Print length5 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)