Feral Political Ecologies

The Biopolitics, Temporalities and Spatialities of Rewilding

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ID8086342
AuthorsKimJ Ward, Sophie Wynne‐jone (0000-0003-2745-3803), Sophie Wynne-Jones, Cara Clancy (0000-0002-1054-172X), George Holmes (0000-0002-5393-5753), Kieran O’mahony (0000-0002-2227-2344)
Year2020
Volume18
Issue2
Pages71-71
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConservation and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0972-4923 • E-ISSN: 0975-3133
PublisherMedknow (PUBLISHER • IN)
DOI10.4103/cs.cs_20_67
OpenAlexW3028717597
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited61

In an era of escalating environmental change and degradation, rewilding has emerged as an\ninnovative, hopeful, and increasingly popular form of conservation capturing the imagination\nof both publics and professionals alike, but equally courting controversy (Lorimer 2015;\nJepson 2018; Pettorelli et al. 2018). Rewilding is aligned with restorative practices promoting\nlandscape fluidity, connectivity and non-equilibrium ecologies (Manning et al. 2009;\nZimmerer 2000; Lindenmayer and Fischer 2013). However, given its emphasis on nonhuman\nautonomy, and a reduction in human intervention and control, rewilding can be seen as a\ndistinct and novel strategy distinguished from traditional forms of ecological restoration (Arts\net al. 2016; Prior and Ward 2016).\nContinuing to evolve since its introduction in the late 1990s (Soule and Noss 1998; Foreman\n2004; Taylor 2005), this growing movement has provided a plural and, for some, confusing\nmultiplicity of agendas (Jørgensen 2015). Broadly speaking, some differences originate from\ndivergent ontologies of wild(er)ness and the historic influence of humans in co-producing\n‘natural’ landscapes (Drenthen 2018; Ward 2019). This can distinguish North American and\nEuropean forms of rewilding, the latter of which provides the geographical focus for this\ncollection. The aim of creating healthier, more resilient, and largely self-willed ecosystems is,\nhowever, apparent as a unifying agenda (Gammon 2018; Pettorelli et al. 2018) moving away\nfrom the compositionalist and territorialised strategies of traditional conservation, towards a\nfocus on ecological functionality and processes (Sandom et al 2013; Lorimer et al. 2015;\nJepson 2016

Biopower · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporalities · Anthropology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy

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