Storied-Places in a Multispecies City

Thom van Dooren is a lecturer in philosophy and environmental studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His current research focuses on ethical and philosophical issues in the context of species extinctions, with a particular focus on birds. He is the author of Vulture (Reaktion Books, 2011) and co-editor with Deborah Bird Rose of the Ecological Humanities section of the Australian Humanities Review.

Deborah Bird Rose is Professor of Social Inclusion at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Her research focuses on human / nonhuman relationships in this time of extinctions. Recent books include Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction (2011, University of Virginia Press, in their series ‘Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism’), the re-released second edition of Country of the Heart: An Indigenous Australian Homeland (2011, Aboriginal Studies Press), and the third edition of the prize-winning ethnography Dingo Makes Us Human (Cambridge University Press, 2009).