Shimmer

Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril

By: Deborah Bird Rose

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Hardcover | 8 January 2022

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312 Pages

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I was called to flying-foxes. My research questions led me into multispecies ethnographic work involving wildlife carers and academically trained scientists in eastern Australia. The people I met were at the front line in the work of holding flying-foxes back from the edge of extinction. I continued to visit the north, and I revisited my notebooks from several decades of research with Aboriginal people.

The research was exhilarating, and then again at times deeply disheartening. I was to encounter more passion, intimacy, cruelty, horror, complexity, generosity and wild beauty than I could ever have imagined. Living with flying-foxes, I came to understand, takes us straight to the heart of every big question facing Earth life in the 21st century.'

In this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before hear death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation that flows across and between generations. Grounded within this insight, she develops and advocates for an ethics of attention that is in the world within everyday practices, and in this case for and with flying foxes and their worlds.

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Shimmer is an inspiring and moving tour de force. Love, care, ethics, connectivity, and crucially non-innocence are the analytical-affective intentions with which Deborah Bird Rose experiences and makes us experience flying-foxes and the myriad blossoms they enable as they meet Aboriginal wisdom, science, the state, and the biosphere. Shimmer is a forceful affirmation of life pronounced as our worlds face many ends, but also--if we are with Deborah Bird Rose--not only. Reading this book, being inspired by it, has been an honor, an immense pleasure, and a complex beam of hope.-- "Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis"
Gifted to us at the precipice of her death, Deborah Bird Rose's Shimmer embodies everything we have valued about her writing--its calm and uncompromised ethical compass; its fidelity to Indigenous worlds and their more than human kin; and its arts of care for forms of existence, here the majestic worlds of flying foxes, declared enemies of settler expansion. Shimmer will hold a precious place in her singular corpus.-- "Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University"

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