ABSTRACT

This article advances a more-than-human perspective on geographies of death and dying, engaging with extinctionscapes as spaces where the memorialization of nonhuman life generates affective and commodifiable experiences with species loss in conservation landscapes. Bringing geographical concepts, such as absence-presence, into conversation with recent literature on lively commodities, we describe how animals at the threshold of life and death are made to work for conservation as well as how their afterlives are subjected to ongoing forms of commodification through acts of memorialization in landscape. Specifically, our analysis focuses on the stories of three rhinos at a conservancy in Kenya to consider the themes of death and dying, value, and commodification in relation to endangered species conservation. By situating the lives and afterlives of these rhinos in the history of settler colonialism and capitalism in Kenya, we examine how commodification, as a social and cultural process, becomes entangled with the corporeal and discorporate lives of animals and contributes to the reproduction of historic injustices through extinctionscapes. Ultimately, we argue for ongoing critical engagement with the amorphous borderland of life and death in geographies of conservation, which represents an important space of biopolitics and commodification.

摘要

这篇文章提出了关于死亡和垂死的地理的非人类视角，并与灭绝景观联系在一起作为纪念非人类生命的场所，在保护景观中产生了物种丧失的情感和可商品化的体验。通过将地理概念（例如不在场）与最新的关于活泼商品的文献进行讨论，我们描述了如何使处于生死关头的动物为保护而工作，以及它们的来世如何通过不断的商品化而受到保护。景观纪念活动。具体而言，我们的分析重点是肯尼亚某保护区的三头犀牛的故事，以考虑与濒危物种保护有关的死亡和垂死，价值和商品化主题。通过将这些犀牛的生活和来世置于肯尼亚定居者殖民主义和资本主义的历史中，我们研究了商品化如何，作为一种社会和文化过程，它与动物的有形和无序的生活纠缠在一起，并通过灭绝景观为历史不公的繁殖做出了贡献。最终，我们主张在保护地理学领域与生死攸关的无定形边界地区进行持续的批判接触，这是生物政治和商品化的重要空间。