Call for Papers: AAG New Orleans, 10-14 April 2018

 

Placing the Wild: the borders and boundaries of rewilding

Organizers: Cara Clancy (Plymouth University) and Nadia Bartolini (University of Exeter)

 

Rewilding has emerged in a myriad of different debates and initiatives in recent years, sparking lively exchanges within both academic and non-academic domains. Despite being an amorphous term (see Lorimer et al. 2015), it is generally deployed to valorise various ontologies of the ‘wild’ and ‘unruly’ – and not just in the context of nature conservation (Lorimer and Driessen 2014; Taylor et al. 2005; Whatmore and Thorne 1998). It therefore speaks to diverse range of interests: from those examining the feral geographies of unsanctioned or unplanned wildlife (Prior and Ward 2016; Hearn et al. 2014; Hodgetts 2017), to those interested in the relationship between humans and nonhumans in late modern society (Adams and Mulligan, 2003; Merchant, 1992; Monbiot, 2013,Rubenstein et al., 2006) as well as those working on the re-imagined landscapes of the past, times when plants and animals may have been subjected to different regimes of governance and control (see for example Ingold 1998, 2000). What accompanies these interests are ethical, moral and political questions around the territories and territorialisation of wildlife.

 

This session is interested in the borders and boundaries of wild-life: how they are constituted, maintained and managed; how they are defied, subverted, and crossed; how they are intertwined with our own boundaries (political, cultural or otherwise); and how efforts to make ‘passageways’ and ‘corridors’ might be critically engaged and developed in ways that expand understandings of nonhuman autonomy.

 

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Cara Clancy ([log in to unmask]) and Nadia Bartolini ([log in to unmask]) by 18 October. We will confirm acceptance by 20 October, and we expect you to register and submit your abstract on the AAG website by 25 October.

 

References:

Adams, W.M. and Mulligan, M. (eds) 2003. Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era. Earthscan, London.

Taylor, K., Anderson, P., Taylor, R., Longden, K. and Fisher, P. (2005). Dogs, access and nature conservation. English Nature Research Report No. 649. English Nature, Peterborough.

Hearn, R., Watkins, C., Balzaretti, R. 2014. The Cultural and Land Use Implications of the Reappearance of the Wild Boar in North West Italy: A Case Study of the Val Di Vara. Journal of Rural Studies 36: 52–63.

Ingold, T. (1998). 'Herds of the tundra: A Portrait of Saami Reindeer Pastoralism'. American Ethnologist, vol 25, no. 1, pp. 73-74.

Ingold, T. 2000. Perception of the Environment. Routledge, London.

Lorimer, J., Sandom, C., Jepson, P., Doughty, C., Barua, M., Kirby, K.J. 2015. Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 40(1): 39–62.

Lorimer, J. and Driessen, C. 2014. Wild Experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen: Rethinking Environmentalism in the Anthropocene. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39(2): 169–81.

Merchant, C. 1992. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Liveable World. Routledge, London; New York.

Monbiot, G. 2013 Feral: Rewilding Land, Sea and Human Life. Penguin Books, London.

Prior, J. and Ward, K.J. 2016. Rethinking Rewilding: A Response to Jørgensen.”Geoforum 69: 132–35.

Rubenstein, D.R., Rubenstein, D.I., Sherman, P.W. and Gavin, T.A. 2006. Pleistocene Park: Does Re-Wilding North America Represent Sound Conservation for the 21st Century? Biological Conservation 132(2): 232–38. 

Whatmore, S. and Thorne, L. 1998 Wild(er)ness: Reconfiguring the Geographies of Wildlife, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 23(4): 435–454.

 

 

Cara Clancy, PhD researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science

Room B409, Portland Square

Plymouth University

PL4 8AA

E-mail: [log in to unmask]

 



This email and any files with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient then copying, distribution or other use of the information contained is strictly prohibited and you should not rely on it. If you have received this email in error please let the sender know immediately and delete it from your system(s). Internet emails are not necessarily secure. While we take every care, Plymouth University accepts no responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan emails and their attachments. Plymouth University does not accept responsibility for any changes made after it was sent. Nothing in this email or its attachments constitutes an order for goods or services unless accompanied by an official order form.