Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies Coexistence
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 Eng...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ea89d5d25cc440aa38d0a98f5155b432022-12-21T22:43:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Conservation Science2673-611X2021-12-01210.3389/fcosc.2021.711299711299Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies CoexistenceLudek Broz0Aníbal Garcia Arregui1Kieran O'Mahony2Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology, Prague, CzechiaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainSchool of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United KingdomBy 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2021.711299/fullAfrican Swine Fever (ASF)game managementhuntingcritical eventveterinary medicine |
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| title | Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies Coexistence |
| title_full | Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies Coexistence |
| title_fullStr | Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies Coexistence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies Coexistence |
| title_short | Wild Boar Events and the Veterinarization of Multispecies Coexistence |
| title_sort | wild boar events and the veterinarization of multispecies coexistence |
| topic | African Swine Fever (ASF) game management hunting critical event veterinary medicine |
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