Field Notes on the Meaning of Rewilding

[en] This paper investigates the concept of rewilding by looking at its uses so far and its implementation by Rewilding Europe, one of the leading rewilding organizations today. Juxtaposing theory with practice, it proposes understanding rewilding as a hybrid ecological semiotic concept. More precisely, rewilding's ecological goals are necessarily mediated, and therefore transformed, through semiotic practices. This is exemplified through a discussion of a rewilding project in the Romanian Danube Delta.

Disciplines :

Sociology & social sciences

Author, co-author :

Tanasescu, Mihnea ; Université de Mons - UMONS ; Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Language :

English

Title :

Field Notes on the Meaning of Rewilding

Publication date :

02 September 2017

Journal title :

Ethics, Policy and Envrionment

ISSN :

2155-0085

eISSN :

2155-0093

Publisher :

Routledge

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Issue :

Pages :

333 - 349

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21550085.2017.1374053

Research institute :

Soci&Ter

Funders :

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Funding text :

This work was supported by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) [grant number FWOTM756].

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