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The Regulatory Life Of Threatened Species Lists, Irus Braverman
The Regulatory Life Of Threatened Species Lists, Irus Braverman
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Published as Chapter 1 in Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities, Irus Braverman, ed.
“The Regulatory Life of Threatened Species Lists” explores a prominent technology for the legal regulation of nonhuman life: the threatened species list. I argue that threatened species lists are biopolitical technologies: they produce and reinforce underlying species ontologies by creating, calculating, and governing the boundaries between various nonhuman species. Such a differentiated treatment of the life and death of nonhuman species through their en-listing, down- and up-listing, multi-listing, and un-listing translates into the positive protection and active governance of such species. Listing threatened species thus becomes a …