Living as a Bird. Vinciane Despret
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Living as a Bird
Vinciane Despret
Translated by Helen Morrison
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Originally published in French as Habiter en oiseau © Actes Sud, France, 2019
This English edition © Polity Press, 2022
Epigraph from Nous sommes à la lisière by Caroline Lamarche © Gallimard 2019. Reprinted with kind permission of Gallimard.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4728-9
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Names: Despret, Vinciane, author. | Morrison, Helen (Langauge translator), translator.
Title: Living as a bird / Vinciane Despret ; translated by Helen Morrison.
Other titles: Habiter en oiseau. English
Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021] | “Originally published in French as Habiter en oiseau © Actes Sud, France, 2019.” | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021016407 (print) | LCCN 2021016408 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509547265 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509547272 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509547289 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Birds--Territoriality. | Birds--Behavior. | Birds--Research. | Territoriality (Zoology)--Philosophy.
Classification: LCC QL678 .D4713 2021 (print) | LCC QL678 (ebook) | DDC 598--dc23
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Dedication
For Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers
Acknowledgements
My thanks to:
Alexandra Elbakyan, whose tireless work in sharing and making available countless scientific articles made this research possible.
Stéphane Durand, who gave me the idea for this book, encouraged, supported, commented on and read my work with extraordinary generosity.
Baptiste Morizot, who gave the book its title, its momentum and many more invaluable things besides.
Marcos Matteos Dias for the melodic breathing.
Thibault De Meyer for everything he shares with me, for his notes which so pertinently understand and help others understand what matters, for his emails and his generous rereading.
Maud Hagelstein, not only for reading the manuscript with such extraordinary attention but especially for her enthusiasm and support, so precious in that perilous moment when you find yourself wondering if you should even have written it.
Isabelle Stengers, from the very beginning to the very last lines.
All the people who agreed to discuss my research and who often made me see things in an unexpected light: Serge Gutwirth and his team of researchers