The biopolitics of (English) rewilding
dc.contributor.author | Thomas, V | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-11T15:24:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-04-15 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-02-11T14:56:26Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Even ‘hands off’ approaches to conservation such as rewilding are intimately, sometimes violently, involved in the lives and deaths of the other-than-human species they seek to protect. Foucauldian biopolitics, with its exploration of the regulation of life and death, is increasing being used to examine the control of other-than-human species. This paper extends the work of other scholars by applying the concept of biopolitics to rewilding in England. A comparative case study of two rewilding sites (the Avalon Marshes in Somerset and Wild Ennerdale in Cumbria) identified common modes of biopolitics operating at both sites. These modes were animals / species as: expendable objects, machines / human proxies, analogues, and self-determining agents, all of which ‘allowed’ different levels of agency for the species concerned. Given that field sites were purposively selected to display contrasting contexts it is possible to extrapolate from the Avalon Marshes and Wild Ennerdale and propose that these biopolitical modes are operating at other English rewilding sites. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 20 (3), pp. 222-233 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/128774 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-4947-3023 (Thomas, Virginia) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Medknow Publications / Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.conservationandsociety.org.in//text.asp?2022/20/3/222/343327 | |
dc.rights | © Thomas 2022. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and distribution of the article, provided the original work is cited. Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, Mumbai | |
dc.subject | rewilding | en_GB |
dc.subject | biopolitics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Other-than-human animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Non-human animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | England | en_GB |
dc.subject | English | en_GB |
dc.title | The biopolitics of (English) rewilding | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-11T15:24:23Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0975-3133 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Medknow Publications via the link in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Conservation and Society | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-12-24 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-12-24 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-02-11T14:56:39Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-05-03T14:28:31Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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