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Rewilding the North and conserving the South?: a roundtable discussion 
Convenors:
Shoko Yamada (Yale University)
Wen Zhou (Yale University)
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Discussants:
Heather Swanson (Aarhus University)
Takehiro Watanabe (Sophia University)
Nigel Dudley (Equilibrium Research)
Sophie Wynne-Jones (Bangor University)
Laura Darcy (WWF -UK)
Format:
Roundtable
Sessions:
Monday 25 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

As rewilding initiatives seek to (re)introduce wilderness into the domesticated landscapes of the Global North, what are their affinities, intersections, and breaks with conservation movements that would preserve the last vestiges of the wild in the Global South?

Long Abstract:

Across the industrialized countries of the Global North, rewilding initiatives seek to (re)introduce a wilderness - by means of beavers, bears, and bison, among other less charismatic species - that has long vanished from domesticized landscapes. At the same time, conservation movements act with urgency to preserve the last remnants of the wild in the Global South, establishing protected areas that would secure natural ecosystems from further anthropogenic degradation. These parallel actions of conjuring and protecting the wild raise pressing questions for theory and practice, to be addressed at this roundtable discussion that brings together a diverse panel of academics and practitioners: What are the imaginaries of wilderness that guide efforts for its reintroduction, and how do these compare to conservation imaginaries that seek its preservation? How do social and discursive networks mediate the circulation of the imaginaries of the wild across the North and the South? What are the historical referents that serve as templates for rewilding, if rewilding is the attempt to reincarnate landscapes of distant (if not antediluvian) pasts for a more utopian future? On the other hand, is conservation practice inevitably backwards-looking, as it seeks to maintain existing ecosystems in unchanging time? Finally, has the success (or failure) of conservation actions in the South inspired the rewilding of the post-industrial landscapes of the North? What lessons might conservation practice abroad have to share with rewilding efforts at home, and how might the very idea of home change with its transformation into "the wild"?

Accepted participant details:

Session 1 Monday 25 October, 2021, -