Nancy Langston, "Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
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Ghosts and the Coved Pandemic
i've been thinking about the fact that just about every culture on earth seems to have some sort of concept of ghosts. And a, not everybody can see ghosts. Some peoplel see a gosanof other people will say it's not there. i feel like these are probably the same thing with some of these species, that some people can see the traces of them, and they're physical. Other people won't see them as part of the landscape any more. That's a really powerful way of putting it. I actually wrote much of this book during the coved, during the first months of the coved pandemic.
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