Extracting Culture or Injecting Nature? Rewilding in Transatlantic Perspective

Hall, Marcus

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07683-6_2

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“…Compositionalist approaches are often based on a fixed ecological baseline in the past (Hall 2010(Hall , 2014Jørgensen 2015;Corlett 2016) and there is often a mismatch between the perceived ecological effect of non-native invasive species and the ecological reality. Management decisions (e.g., to cull species) are often made in accordance with human timescales rather than ecological scales (Beever et al 2019).…”

Section: Environmental History and Ecological Baselinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science and Knowledge of Free‐Roaming Donkeys—A Critical Review

Clancy¹,

Kubasiewicz²,

Raw³

et al. 2021

J Wildl Manag

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The emergence of free-roaming donkey (Equus asinus) populations globally has brought novel challenges for conservationists, land managers, and those concerned about animal welfare. We provide a review of the scientific literature pertaining to the place and role of free-roaming donkeys from 1950 until 2020. Using quantitative and qualitative techniques, namely categorical and thematic analysis and critical discourse analysis, to review >100 articles, we critically examine the logics and rationales that are used to either support or denounce donkey presence in particular landscapes and discuss their place and role in different ecological contexts. Free-roaming donkeys are largely understudied and clouded by dichotomous points of view, different conservation agendas, and the presence of other species in donkey habitat. There is an important need for more in-depth, site-specific studies on free-roaming donkeys that draw on tools and techniques from across the social and natural sciences. Such efforts would offer a richer, more holistic, and comprehensive picture of free-roaming donkeys that consider both human and animal perspectives and the wider environment. This has important implications for generating long-term sustainable management solutions for free-roaming donkeys.

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Section: Environmental History and Ecological Baselinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science and Knowledge of Free‐Roaming Donkeys—A Critical Review

Clancy¹,

Kubasiewicz²,

Raw³

et al. 2021

J Wildl Manag

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“…The view on nature conservation is also affected by whether the guide describes nature as being separate from culture or as being formed by culture. Nature conservation can be regarded as a protection measure against human activity or as the continuous maintenance of species through active human management, corresponding to hands-off and hands-on views on the environment (Hall, 2014). How the local nature conservation processes look today and how the landscape has historically developed are common themes cutting across the sessions.…”

Section: Critical Potential (4) Is There Space For Being Critical?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Spheres for Deliberation on Nature? Democratic Qualities of Visitor Centres in Sweden

Caselunghe

Bergeå

Essen

2019

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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In this paper we explore in which ways and to what extent Swedish visitor centres in protected sites work as forums for public deliberation on environmental issues, such as nature conservation and natural resource management. By hosting deliberations on nature in nature the deliberation process is connected to its materiality. Nature interpretation sessions at three such centres, called naturum, were analysed to achieve a picture that displays the range of content and formats of these guided tours. To explore their deliberative democratic potential, we also examine how these nature interpretation sessions relate to societal and democratic issues in different ways. The conclusions are that naturum has an underdeveloped capacity to serve as a communicative forum for public deliberation on the environment and that the new national guidelines for naturum may contribute to renewed roles of the guide and the visitor in interpretive sessions, in which the citizen will be in focus. Author Biography Elvira Caselunghe is a PhD student in Environmental Communication at the Department of Urban and Rural Studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her thesis investigates deliberative democracy in the context of nature conservation.

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“…These different approaches may be based either on the stimulation of natural autonomy through enhancement of natural processes that were impaired by humans or on the improvement of the ecological functioning through the enhancement of naturalistic processes that positively impact the ecological integrity of the area (Arts et al 2016). However, it does not involve a return to a pre-human state in the sense of excluding people from nature (Hall 2014). Rather, it reflects new forms of environmental consciousness and new forms of experiencing and living with nature through the provision of new opportunities to interact with nature (Arts et al 2016).…”

Section: Wild Forest Products As a Biocultural Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Interest in Wild Forest Products in Europe as an Expression of Biocultural Dynamics

Wiersum

2017

Hum Ecol

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In Europe, interest in wild forest products is increasing. Such products may be interpreted in a biological sense as deriving from autonomously growing forest species or in a biocultural sense as reflecting dynamics in human living with biodiversity through re-wilding of earlier domesticated species. In this article I elaborate the idea that the new interests reflect biocultural dynamics. First, I identify these dynamics as involving both domestication and re-wilding and characterize these processes as involving biological, environmental, and cultural dimensions. Next, I present a comparative review of two approaches to re-wilding forest production in the Netherlands: meat production from new types of natural grazing systems, and food production from plants re-introduced to the wild. The first approach is based on the stimulation of naturally occurring ecological processes and the second on the stimulation of new forms of experiencing bio-cultural heritage. The examples demonstrate that the new interests in wild forest products involve both a return to earlier stages of domestication in an ecological sense and a new phase of acculturation to evolving socio-cultural conditions.

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Extracting Culture or Injecting Nature? Rewilding in Transatlantic Perspective

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Science and Knowledge of Free‐Roaming Donkeys—A Critical Review

Science and Knowledge of Free‐Roaming Donkeys—A Critical Review

Public Spheres for Deliberation on Nature? Democratic Qualities of Visitor Centres in Sweden

New Interest in Wild Forest Products in Europe as an Expression of Biocultural Dynamics

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