Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8104872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Håkon B Stokland (0000-0001-9668-8492, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685306-00001407 |
| OpenAlex | W3010972695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
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
Histoire de la sexualité, Tome I
Wildlife in the Anthropocene
Rethinking biodiversity
Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes
Les pionniers de l'écologie
From Big Bad Wolf to Ecological Hero
Questions of Method
How Many Wolves Does it Take to Protect the Population? Minimum Viable Population Size as a Technology of Government in Endangered Species Management (Norway, 1970s-2000s)
Producing ‘prehistoric’ life
Counting Species
Wild Life
Controlling Animals
Domesticating nature
Cloning Wild Life
Flight Ways
Managing Love and Death at the Zoo
Wolves
Cougar - Human Entanglements and the Biopolitical Un/Making of Safe Space
Contesting Genetic Knowledge-Practices in Livestock Breeding
A Wolf at the Gate
Stabilizing the Herd
Biodiversity, Purity, and Death
Of wildcats and wild cats
Caring for the Collective
Databases, Scaling Practices, and the Globalization of Biodiversity
The Care of Migrants
When the lads go hunting
Social representations of the wolf
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |