This paper builds on work about rewilding and human–animal relations by focusing inquiry
on Portugal's Côa Valley, where a concentration of prehistoric rock art animal figures shares …

This paper investigates how animal aging and ill-health are managed, spaced, interpreted,
and experienced within a horse–human relationship. It does so by exploring the active …

Amidst millennial talk of the 'end of nature'(McKibben 1989), this paper examines the
precarious geographies of 'wildlife'in rather less apocalyptic terms. Animal (and plant) …

In this paper, I consider the role of animals in gentrification processes, developing a
conceptualisation of 'horsification': the proliferation of horses within a locale, resulting …

Rewilding is positioned as 'post'-conservation through its emphasis on unleashing the
autonomy of natural processes. In this paper, we argue that the autonomy of nature rhetoric …

This paper is concerned with a herd of wild horses that struggles to survive in the Namib
Desert. This case, we argue, reveals ambivalences and critical paradoxes that go along with …

The growing debate on the Anthropocene epoch urges a critical reflection on the
relationship between human and non-human animals. This paper reflects on the space of …

Pastoral landscapes are mostly located in agriculturally marginalised areas such as
mountain uplands or sandy heathlands. For this reason they have usually not undergone the …

The idea of “species” is the main unit for representing ecological relations. But what would
an ecology look like if we started by tracing its relations from below the species threshold …

This paper is concerned with changing social representations of the “wild,” in particular wild
animals. We argue that within a contemporary Western context the old agricultural …