The affective economies and political force of rural wildness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8103976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Esther Peeren (0000-0002-6432-2493, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 834-845 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscape Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6397 • E-ISSN: 1469-9710 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01426397.2018.1427706 |
| OpenAlex | W2794128762 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 18 |
Although conventionally distinguished from the wilderness, the rural is nevertheless frequently perceived as a site of wildness, both in the sense of the uncultured/uncivilised and in the sense of the natural/authentic. Arguing that the politics of rurality have an important affective dimension that cannot be dismissed as illusionary or neatly separated from supposedly rational assessments, this article explores the affective economies that, in Sara Ahmed’s terms, cause particular feelings and values to become ‘stuck’ to the notion of rural wildness, influencing how it can be mobilised politically. Case studies of how rural wildness is harnessed as a political force in the self-presentation of the Countryside Alliance, a prominent British rural advocacy group, and in the successful 2013 Dutch documentary film The New Wilderness [De nieuwe wildernis] about a rewilding project in the Oostvaardersplassen reveal that, in both instances, the affective economies at play explicitly or implicitly support a conservative politics
Aesthetics · Alliance · CONTEST · Environmental ethics · Feeling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Rurality · Sociology · Wilderness · Wildness · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
Spinning the Rural Agenda
The Promise of Wilderness Between Paradise and Hell
Rethinking rewilding
Situating local experience of risk
Wild experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen
Classifying Wilders
Online Participation and Mobilisation in Britain
The Trouble with Wilderness
Bovine biopolitics and the promise of monsters in the rewilding of Heck cattle
Exploring Knowledge-Cultures
The country(side) is angry
From "Nazi Cows" to Cosmopolitan "Ecological Engineers
Affective Economies
The Ruralization of the World
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |