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Accepted Paper:

On time and value in de-extinction efforts: the afterlife of thylacines  
Katie Glaskin

Paper short abstract:

Scientific efforts to clone extinct species through extracting DNA from remnant museum specimens raise a number of ethical issues underscored by competing questions of value. Using the thylacine as a case study, this paper considers the intersection of time and value in the context of de-extinction.

Paper long abstract:

Scientific efforts to clone extinct animals through the extraction of DNA from remnant museum specimens raise a number of ethical issues involving competing questions of value. What is being prioritized in such efforts - is it the animal or the species, the scientific or the economic, or is it the idea of de-extinction as a uniquely human capacity to subvert linear and genetic notions of time? Drawing on scientific efforts to clone the thylacine, this paper considers the notion of de-extinction through cloning as a particular form of exchange: one that involves the transfer of body parts, and that has the potential to extend species in time and space. This invites a conceptual analysis that links questions of time and value with anthropological discussions about partibility and personhood and activities that, in other contexts, might be described as 'sorcery' or 'magic'.

Panel P15
Values of time, times of value
  Session 1 Monday 2 December, 2019, -