0576714 - EÚ 2024 eng A3 - Přednáška/prezentace nepublikovaná
Brož, Luděk - Keil, Paul G. - O'Mahony, Kieran
Bewildering numbers: a social analysis of how population estimates shape human-wild pig relations.
[International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids /13./. Barcelona, 06.09.2022-09.09.2022]
Způsob prezentace: Přednáška
URL akce: https://wildboarsymposium.com/ 
GRANT EU: European Commission(CZ) 866350 - BOAR
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: Anthopology * Animal health and disease * Ecological science
Obor OECD: Antropology, ethnology

Globally, free-roaming pig populations are under increased scrutiny. Maps of wild boar density and distribution in Europe illustrate critical geographies where the introduction of African Swine Fever (ASF) might result in the unmanageable spread of the fatal disease. In their non-native home of Australia, the feral pig population is commonly estimated at upwards of 25 million – one pig per human – a number which illustrates their alarming proliferation. Population counts, graphs, and distribution maps are numerically-based representations that play a crucial role in how we conceptualize free-roaming pigs, their advances and retreats, and the threats they might represent. There has been significant debate in biology, game management, and conservation science about methodologies of animal population estimates and the limited reliability of these measures. Less developed is a social scientific inquiry into how these estimates with a high margin of error and uncertainty are translated into and deployed in public discourse, state policy, and on-the ground perception of wild pigs. This paper will take a critical look at these forms of representation and how they shape the relationship between human and free-roaming pigs, drawing on social scientific research in three contexts: ASF spread in Europe, wild boar reintroduction in the United Kingdom (UK), and invasive species management in Australia. What role do population counts and distribution models play in shaping perceptions of wild and feral pigs - who they are, what they can do, and how we should respond to them? Are these uncertain numbers used to depict an inherent unruliness in wild pigs, more-so than other free-roaming species? How are these representations deployed in overlapping or differentiating ways between the European, UK and Australian context?
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346863