0549620 - EÚ 2022 RIV CH eng J - Journal Article
Brož, Luděk - O'Mahony, K. - Arregui, A.
Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies Coexistence.
Frontiers in Conservation Science. Roč. 2, DEC (2021), č. článku 711299. E-ISSN 2673-611X
EU Projects: European Commission(CZ) 866350
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : African Swine Fever * game management * critical event * veterinary medicine
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2021.711299/full

By considering the emergence and threat of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Europe, this paper demonstrates the growing role of veterinary rationales in reframing contemporary human-wild boar coexistence. Through comparative ethnographies of human-wild boar relations in the Czech Republic, Spain and England, it shows that coexistence is not a predictable and steady process but is also demarked by points of radical change in form, course and atmosphere. Such moments, or wild boar events, can lead to
the (re-)formation or magnified influence of certain discourses, practices and power relations in determining strategies of bio-governance. Specifically, this paper highlights how the spread of ASF in Europe has accelerated an already ongoing process of
veterinarization, understood as the growing prominence of veterinary sciences in the mediation and reorganization of contemporary socioecologies. This example highlights how veterinary logics increasingly influence localized human-wildlife relations and,
through analogous practices of biosecurity and control, also connect different places and geographic contexts.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0325818