Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animale

During the last twenty years, geographers have witnessed the rise of an animal geography. Take full advantage of the geographical study of animals, neglected both by the proponents of physical geography, often intellectually disarmed to study them, that by those of the human geography, often numerou...

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Main Authors: Philippe Sierra, Guillaume Marchand, Farid Benhammou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association AGF 2019-10-01
Series:Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/bagf/4886
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description During the last twenty years, geographers have witnessed the rise of an animal geography. Take full advantage of the geographical study of animals, neglected both by the proponents of physical geography, often intellectually disarmed to study them, that by those of the human geography, often numerous to reject the environmental considerations for epistemological reasons (it would be “geographic determinism ») or ideological (environmental skepticism, "humanism"), in fact paved the way for new approaches to a reconciled geography. Animal geographies make possible to revisit the notions of territory, dwelling, to rethink the methods of animal mapping used by biologists / ethologists and also to ask ethical questions about our relationship with the environment. By decentering the gaze from strictly human goals towards human-nonhuman relationship, or even by allowing to apprehend the animal point of view, animal geographies also make possible to rethink the concept of “nature” both by going beyond the nature / culture dichotomy already denounced but also by explicitly asking the question of our definitions of these terms, and in particular of the notion of wilderness.First, we will examine the epistemological contributions of animal geography to the approach of "natural" environments. We will show how these new approaches should lead to revise our geographer’s view of "nature". For this, we will rely on the issue of wildlife management based on the case of the sacred Ibis in the west of France.
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spelling doaj.art-c8b17f8b3bb84df180fa85d224b974342023-12-06T16:30:15ZengAssociation AGFBulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français0004-53222275-51952019-10-0196220221610.4000/bagf.4886Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animalePhilippe SierraGuillaume MarchandFarid BenhammouDuring the last twenty years, geographers have witnessed the rise of an animal geography. Take full advantage of the geographical study of animals, neglected both by the proponents of physical geography, often intellectually disarmed to study them, that by those of the human geography, often numerous to reject the environmental considerations for epistemological reasons (it would be “geographic determinism ») or ideological (environmental skepticism, "humanism"), in fact paved the way for new approaches to a reconciled geography. Animal geographies make possible to revisit the notions of territory, dwelling, to rethink the methods of animal mapping used by biologists / ethologists and also to ask ethical questions about our relationship with the environment. By decentering the gaze from strictly human goals towards human-nonhuman relationship, or even by allowing to apprehend the animal point of view, animal geographies also make possible to rethink the concept of “nature” both by going beyond the nature / culture dichotomy already denounced but also by explicitly asking the question of our definitions of these terms, and in particular of the notion of wilderness.First, we will examine the epistemological contributions of animal geography to the approach of "natural" environments. We will show how these new approaches should lead to revise our geographer’s view of "nature". For this, we will rely on the issue of wildlife management based on the case of the sacred Ibis in the west of France.http://journals.openedition.org/bagf/4886Epistemology of geographyNatureAllochtonous ecologyAnimal’s point of view
spellingShingle Philippe Sierra
Guillaume Marchand
Farid Benhammou
Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animale
Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français
Epistemology of geography
Nature
Allochtonous ecology
Animal’s point of view
title Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animale
title_full Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animale
title_fullStr Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animale
title_full_unstemmed Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animale
title_short Repenser la nature sauvage avec la géographie animale
title_sort repenser la nature sauvage avec la geographie animale
topic Epistemology of geography
Nature
Allochtonous ecology
Animal’s point of view
url http://journals.openedition.org/bagf/4886
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