Managing the Return of the Wild

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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?