Living with Wolves Affects, Feelings and Sentiments in Human-Wolf-Coexistence
With their return to Germany, wolves leave their traces in personal feelings, in the atmospheres of rural landscapes and even in the sentiments and moods that govern political arenas. Thorsten Gieser explores the role of affects, emotions, moods and atmospheres in the emerging coexistence between hu...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Human-Animal Studies ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009849239806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- The return of the wolves to Germany
- Living with wolves: coexistence as an affective affair
- Living with wolves: an etho‐ethnological approach
- Methodology: an ethnographic approach to human‐wolf coexistence
- Plan of the book
- 2. Wolf Affects
- Affective wolf bodies
- Encounter I: playful affects
- Encounter II: dangerous affects
- Encounter III: playful or dangerous affects?
- 3. Wolf Agency
- Wolf agency and coexistence
- How the wolves returned to the Westerwald
- Wolf agency in affective arrangements
- 4. Wolf Atmospheres
- Wolf atmospheres and the ecology of fear
- Rosenthal, Lusatia: a landscape of fear?
- Towards a concept of wolf atmosphere
- 5. Wolf Feelings
- The role of feelings, sentiments, and ethos
- Loved. Wanted. Sacrificed?": shepherds, wolves and sheep
- They have no respect!": hunters, wolves, and other wild animals
- They touch something deep inside me": wolf friends and wolves
- 6. Wolf Management as Affect Management
- The affective dynamics of wolf management
- Rationality as a guiding principle
- We take your concerns and fears seriously
- You also have to stir the mood
- Letting off steam, taking pressure out of the system
- EXCURSUS: affect management of wolves
- 7. Epilogue: towards a resting pulse of coexistence
- Intentional and unintentional consequences of following wolves as method
- The 'resting pulse of coexistence' and the 'queasy sometimes‑feeling'
- Coexistence with affect‐guided thinking, sensibility and resilience
- 8. Appendix
- 9. Bibliography.
