Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation

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ID8104872
AutoresHåkon B Stokland (0000-0001-9668-8492, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume29
Fascículo1
Páginas1-21
Data de publicação2020-03-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociety and Animals (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15685306-00001407
OpenAlexW3010972695
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas39

This article investigates the construction of instruments and techniques employed in the management of Norwegian wolves since the early 1980s by construing the tools as technologies of government. The proliferation of such instruments and techniques, constructed to effect protection in practice, has transformed Norwegian wolves in significant ways. Unlike the historic population, which often went through large variations in numbers and was spread throughout large parts of the country, the current population of wolves is regulated to stay at a fixed number and within a relatively small wolf-zone. The current population is also highly amenable to detailed government; the number and location of the wolves, and even the genetic composition of the population over the longer term, can be reconfigured in detail. The article further argues that the general proliferation of governmental technologies in biodiversity conservation has meant similar transformations of a great number of endangered organisms

Biodiversity · Biology · Economics · Endangered species · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Government (linguistics · Norwegian · Political science · Population · Population growth · Population size · Sociology · Transformative learning · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Demography · Ecology