När:	10.00-12.00
Var:	Sal 204, Annedalsseminariet
Vem:	Matthew Justin Tuggey
PP/slides:	wolf conservation Sweden.pptx

Beskrivning: The growing presence of the wolf across central and south Sweden weaves together a number of concerns and issues, ranging from EU policy on biodiversity; negative attitudes towards wolves and wolf policy; and issues of institutional legitimacy and illegal hunting. In this session we take human ecology's commitment to the entwinement of the social and ecological as our start point. From here we explore wolf conservation from the perspectives of policy (EU and Swedish), management (vilt- och rovdjursförvaltning) and as experienced by various social groups in proximity with the wolf. We ask whether human ecology's focus on challenges related to unclear definitions; scale issues; intervention stresses and there being no objective measure of success (pp.10-12 Dyball and Newell, 2023) help us to think about wolf conservation differently. Does it enable us to explore new social relations with other people and also with the wolf and other animals.

The class will be given in English but questions in Swedish are welcomed.

Litteratur:

NB: During the class we will use pp. 105-107; 111-124 and 131-132 from the article below. So please ensure you have read these beforehand.

Skogen, Ketil; Mauz, Isabelle & Krange, Olve. (2009). Cry Wolf!: Narratives of Wolf Recovery in France and Norway, Rural Sociology 73(1):105-133. https://doi.org/10.1526/003601108783575916