Managing the Return of the Wild (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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: 9781351127769
• Artikelnr.: 59636116

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?