Managing the Return of the Wild (eBook, PDF)

Human Encounters with Wolves in Europe
Redaktion: Fenske, Michaela; Tschofen, Bernhard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores attitudes and strategies towards the return of the wild in times of ecological crisis, focusing on wolves in Europe.The contributions from a variety of disciplines discuss human encounters with wolves, engaging with traditional narratives and contemporary conflicts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351127776
• Artikelnr.: 59636326

Autorenporträt

Michaela Fenske is a professor of European Ethnology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Bernhard Tschofen is a professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Human encounters with wolves: an introduction

2 The Beast of Gévaudan as a history of the changing perceptions of fatal human-wolf interaction

3 Made of stone, flesh and narration - 'the wolf' as contested lieu de mémoire

4 The story of Wanderwolf: a contested tale on the re-emergence of 'new wilderness' in the Netherlands

5 "One feels a shiver" - wolf perceptions and representations in Portugal

6 Actualizing wolves: environmental education settings as part of wolf management in Switzerland

7 Modes of involvedness. Theorising different ways of relating within the Swiss wolf debate

8 Diverging worlds of biodiversity and biosecurity: the presence of wolves in a Swiss Alpine territory

9 Getting close(r). Alive or dead: biography, individuality and agency of the wolf MT6

10 Hunting wild animals in Germany: conflicts between wildlife management and 'traditional' practices of Hege

11 Ways of speaking, responsibility and the animals 'of the forest' in Northwest Russia

12 Predators and reindeer on the same pastures?