Finding the communal in conflict and how to live with the wild

0565952 - EÚ 2023 eng A - Abstrakt
Keil, Paul G.
Finding the communal in conflict and how to live with the wild.
[EASA Biennial Conference. Transformation, Hope and the Commons /17./. 26.07.2022-29.07.2022, Belfast]
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) EF20_079/0017525
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: wildlife conflict * wildlife coexistence * vulnerability
Obor OECD: Antropology, ethnology
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/programme#11500

Analysis of “conflict” often positions human and wildlife in competition for resources, while compartmentalising the world into divergent perspectives and domains. However, as anthropologists have argued, other modes of interspecies relations can exist alongside antagonism in a common environment. This paper will focus on a group of farmers undermined by crop depredations from wildlife, yet who went on to play a vital role in securing a wildlife corridor that passed through their property. How did this act of solidarity in a shared landscape emerge? Can we find the relational conditions for a communal future in this history of conflict? Ethnography can articulate the vulnerability of living with a wild more-than-human agency, and how co-presence - even when in conflict - can lead to a sense of co-belonging. In particular, I will analyse a sacrificial practice that demonstrates a willingness to communicate with and partly concede the world to the more-than-human. The oft-cited attitude of tolerance is insufficient for conceptualising the political and hopeful possibilities of human-wildlife coexistence
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0337790