Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond. By Elizabeth Callaway.

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      "If scientists are quick to point out that biodiversity is not "about" any particular array of organisms", Callaway writes, "but instead "about" the I differences between i them, then it is a concept that can only be portrayed by many organisms at once" (6). She looks at narratives of biodiversity in twentieth- and twenty-first-century science writing, the visual culture of biology, nature writing, science fiction novels, and databases. For example, in Callaway's archive, the Global North is often presented as the place where biodiversity is counted, studied, and protected, and the Global South as both the place where biodiversity is concentrated and the source of human threats against it. [Extracted from the article]
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