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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 150–170.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Petra Tjitske Kalshoven Abstract Extinct as a result of overhunting and habitat loss, the great auk, or garefowl, leads a hidden taxidermied existence in museum storerooms, sheltered from potential further degradation. As an environmental icon, however, the bird inspires a lively political economy...
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in Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk: Techniques and Charms of Contiguity
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 3. Pierre-Yves Renkin with a great auk model, near Namur, Belgium, 2016. Photograph by the author
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in Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk: Techniques and Charms of Contiguity
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 4. Brussels great auk specimen, Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, 2016. Photograph by the author
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 A painting by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1930) entitled The Great Auk surrounded by its true relatives. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auks.jpg .
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 2 Stuffed great auk at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow. Image © Mike Pennington. Used under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.
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Published: 01 May 2014
Figure 1 Geirfugl / Great Auk, sculpture in aluminium by Ólöf Nordal 1998. (Photo: © Vigfús Birgisson, published with kind permission of Ólöf Nordal).
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 195–205.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Figure 1 A painting by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1930) entitled The Great Auk surrounded by its true relatives. Courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auks.jpg . ...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 77–100.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Figure 1 Geirfugl / Great Auk, sculpture in aluminium by Ólöf Nordal 1998. (Photo: © Vigfús Birgisson, published with kind permission of Ólöf Nordal). ...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... more than a bit of trivia until 1974, when a radically expanded account by Robert Cantwell appeared in Sports Illustrated under the title “A Plague of Starlings.” Cantwell once had dreams of being a great novelist, and his article shows he retained a knack for storytelling. 56 It seizes...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and encouraging the birds.” 21 Banders and administrators repeatedly insisted in writing that banding had no deleterious effects. Take, for example, Lincoln’s assertion in the pages of the Auk : “The merits of the question as to the relative harm done to bird life through such operations may well...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 151–168.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Dharmarajan, and Olin E. Rhodes, Jr., “Effects of Culling on Mesopredator Population Dynamics,” PLOS ONE March (2013). On awkwardness see Jamie Lorimer, “On Auks and Awkwardness,” Environmental Humanities 4 (2014): 195-205. 39 Penelope Edmonds, “Unpacking Settler Colonialism's Urban Strategies...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 454–474.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., Absence, and Afterlife” ; McCorristine and Adams, “Ghost Species.” 4. Thew, “Narcissistic Attachments” ; Lorimer, “On Auks and Awkwardness.” 3. Jørgensen, “Endling” ; Jørgensen, “Presence of Absence.” 2. Heise, Imagining Extinction . 1. McVay, “The Last of the Great...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 2 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... Schiller & Karl S. Lashley (London: Methuen & Co, 1957). Extinction, of course, involves the death of singular beings, the last Great Auk shot by a trophy hunter, the last passenger pigeon in a cage in Cincinnati Zoo, but it is also a specific kind of death: It is both a species of death...
