Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0001
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
The introduction engages the Anthropocene, identifying the deficiencies in existing accounts before outlining the approach that is developed in the book. It sketches the theoretical framework before ...
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The introduction engages the Anthropocene, identifying the deficiencies in existing accounts before outlining the approach that is developed in the book. It sketches the theoretical framework before detailing the empirical materials through which the argument is developed.Less
The introduction engages the Anthropocene, identifying the deficiencies in existing accounts before outlining the approach that is developed in the book. It sketches the theoretical framework before detailing the empirical materials through which the argument is developed.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.001.0001
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange ...
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Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange to be human, too captive to truly be wild, but too wild to be domesticated—where do elephants fall in our understanding of nature? In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife inhabits everywhere and is on the move; Lorimer proposes the concept of wildlife as a replacement for nature. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene—an era in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on our planet—Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature and the politics of wildlife conservation. Wildlife in the Anthropocene examines rewilding, the impacts of wildlife films, human relationships with charismatic species, and urban wildlife. Analyzing scientific papers, policy documents, and popular media, as well as a decade of fieldwork, Lorimer explores the new interconnections between science, politics, and neoliberal capitalism that the Anthropocene demands of wildlife conservation. Imagining conservation in a world where humans are geological actors entangled within and responsible for powerful, unstable, and unpredictable planetary forces, this work nurtures a future environmentalism that is more hopeful and democratic.Less
Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be objects, too strange to be human, too captive to truly be wild, but too wild to be domesticated—where do elephants fall in our understanding of nature? In Wildlife in the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer argues that the idea of nature as a pure and timeless place characterized by the absence of humans has come to an end. But life goes on. Wildlife inhabits everywhere and is on the move; Lorimer proposes the concept of wildlife as a replacement for nature. Offering a thorough appraisal of the Anthropocene—an era in which human actions affect and influence all life and all systems on our planet—Lorimer unpacks its implications for changing definitions of nature and the politics of wildlife conservation. Wildlife in the Anthropocene examines rewilding, the impacts of wildlife films, human relationships with charismatic species, and urban wildlife. Analyzing scientific papers, policy documents, and popular media, as well as a decade of fieldwork, Lorimer explores the new interconnections between science, politics, and neoliberal capitalism that the Anthropocene demands of wildlife conservation. Imagining conservation in a world where humans are geological actors entangled within and responsible for powerful, unstable, and unpredictable planetary forces, this work nurtures a future environmentalism that is more hopeful and democratic.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0010
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
The conclusion summarizes the argument developed in the book to synthesize an approach to conservation after the Anthropocene. It then reflects on three significant challenges that face the model ...
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The conclusion summarizes the argument developed in the book to synthesize an approach to conservation after the Anthropocene. It then reflects on three significant challenges that face the model developed in the book.Less
The conclusion summarizes the argument developed in the book to synthesize an approach to conservation after the Anthropocene. It then reflects on three significant challenges that face the model developed in the book.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0002
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter one develops the concept of wildlife as a replacement for Nature for conservation. It does so through a discussion of the four themes of hybridity, nonhuman agency, immanence and topology. It ...
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Chapter one develops the concept of wildlife as a replacement for Nature for conservation. It does so through a discussion of the four themes of hybridity, nonhuman agency, immanence and topology. It presents wildlife as a multiple, subsuming a number of discordant ontologies. This argument is illustrated with reference to Asian elephants.Less
Chapter one develops the concept of wildlife as a replacement for Nature for conservation. It does so through a discussion of the four themes of hybridity, nonhuman agency, immanence and topology. It presents wildlife as a multiple, subsuming a number of discordant ontologies. This argument is illustrated with reference to Asian elephants.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0006
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter five compares conservation as composition with rewilding, an alternative model concerned with ecological processes. Through a critical examination of the use of large herbivores on a polder ...
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Chapter five compares conservation as composition with rewilding, an alternative model concerned with ecological processes. Through a critical examination of the use of large herbivores on a polder landscape in the Netherlands, this chapter presents conservation as comprising wild experiments involving open-ended deliberations with multiple and discordant humans and nonhumans.Less
Chapter five compares conservation as composition with rewilding, an alternative model concerned with ecological processes. Through a critical examination of the use of large herbivores on a polder landscape in the Netherlands, this chapter presents conservation as comprising wild experiments involving open-ended deliberations with multiple and discordant humans and nonhumans.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0007
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter six examines the role of moving imagery in conservation. We live in an age of the screen in which media play vital roles in framing and governing human and nonhuman life. Focusing on ...
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Chapter six examines the role of moving imagery in conservation. We live in an age of the screen in which media play vital roles in framing and governing human and nonhuman life. Focusing on elephants, this chapter critically examines four prevalent affective logics in the genres that characterize wildlife media.Less
Chapter six examines the role of moving imagery in conservation. We live in an age of the screen in which media play vital roles in framing and governing human and nonhuman life. Focusing on elephants, this chapter critically examines four prevalent affective logics in the genres that characterize wildlife media.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0008
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter seven develops the concept of nonhuman charisma to explore how encounters between people and wildlife are valued in conservation. It explores the commodification of charisma in captivity and ...
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Chapter seven develops the concept of nonhuman charisma to explore how encounters between people and wildlife are valued in conservation. It explores the commodification of charisma in captivity and in-situ. It examines the deleterious consequences for people and wildlife of contemporary forms of neoliberal conservation focused on charismatic species.Less
Chapter seven develops the concept of nonhuman charisma to explore how encounters between people and wildlife are valued in conservation. It explores the commodification of charisma in captivity and in-situ. It examines the deleterious consequences for people and wildlife of contemporary forms of neoliberal conservation focused on charismatic species.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0009
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter eight explores questions of space. It traces the binary understanding of conservation territories that informs Nature conservation. Focusing on urban wildlife and recent enthusiasms for ...
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Chapter eight explores questions of space. It traces the binary understanding of conservation territories that informs Nature conservation. Focusing on urban wildlife and recent enthusiasms for ecological connectivity it examines the potential of other topologies for wildlife including network and fluid geographies that appreciate the mobilities of nonhumans themselves.Less
Chapter eight explores questions of space. It traces the binary understanding of conservation territories that informs Nature conservation. Focusing on urban wildlife and recent enthusiasms for ecological connectivity it examines the potential of other topologies for wildlife including network and fluid geographies that appreciate the mobilities of nonhumans themselves.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0004
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter three examines prevalent practices of biodiversity conservation as biopolitics. Focusing on the UK, it explores how biodiversity conservation seeks to secure life through identifying, ...
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Chapter three examines prevalent practices of biodiversity conservation as biopolitics. Focusing on the UK, it explores how biodiversity conservation seeks to secure life through identifying, counting, researching and nurturing populations of species. It presents conservation as oligoptical – framing and performing the world in the shape of partial databases and skillsets.Less
Chapter three examines prevalent practices of biodiversity conservation as biopolitics. Focusing on the UK, it explores how biodiversity conservation seeks to secure life through identifying, counting, researching and nurturing populations of species. It presents conservation as oligoptical – framing and performing the world in the shape of partial databases and skillsets.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0003
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter two examines how conservationists come to know wildlife. It explore field science as processes of learning to be affected in which embodied, skilled practitioners tune into the world. It ...
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Chapter two examines how conservationists come to know wildlife. It explore field science as processes of learning to be affected in which embodied, skilled practitioners tune into the world. It examines the character and role of nonhuman charisma in shaping the conduct of conservation.Less
Chapter two examines how conservationists come to know wildlife. It explore field science as processes of learning to be affected in which embodied, skilled practitioners tune into the world. It examines the character and role of nonhuman charisma in shaping the conduct of conservation.
Jamie Lorimer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816681075
- eISBN:
- 9781452950631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681075.003.0005
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Chapter four examines a common mode of conservation biopolitics concerned with saving species from political and ecological change – or conservation as composition. It focuses on the conservation of ...
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Chapter four examines a common mode of conservation biopolitics concerned with saving species from political and ecological change – or conservation as composition. It focuses on the conservation of corncrakes and crofters in the Scottish Hebrides. It traces the scientific, political and economic practices through which their fate has been secured, before identifying some of the problems with this static model.Less
Chapter four examines a common mode of conservation biopolitics concerned with saving species from political and ecological change – or conservation as composition. It focuses on the conservation of corncrakes and crofters in the Scottish Hebrides. It traces the scientific, political and economic practices through which their fate has been secured, before identifying some of the problems with this static model.
