Environmentalities of coexistence with wolves in the Cantabrian mountains of Spain
Marino, Agnese (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Blanco, Juan Carlos (Consultores en Biologia de la Conservacion S.L.)
Cortes Vazquez, Jose Antonio (Universidad de A Coruña. Departamento de Sociología y Comunicación)
Lopez-Bao, José Vicente (Universidad de Oviedo. Instituto de Investigación de la Biodiversidad - CSIC)
Planella Bosch, Anna (Universidad de Oviedo. Unidad de Investigación de la Biodiversidad)
Durant, Sarah (Zoological Society of London. Institute of Zoology)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	Coexistence between humans and large carnivores is mediated by diverse values and interactions. We focus on four sites in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain with a history of continuous wolf presence to examine how perceptions of coexistence vary across contexts. We conducted semi-structured and informal interviews with livestock farmers (n = 271), hunters (n = 157), and local community members (n = 60) to collect quantitative and qualitative data on people's experiences of coexistence with wolves. We use an environmentality framework to analyse approaches to wolf governance across sites and explore how local resource users perceive, negotiate, and respond to different governance approaches. Our analysis is firstly structured around coexistence subjectivities associated with pastoralist and hunter cultures. These encompass ambivalent and multi-layered relations founded on notions of reciprocity with nature and on resource users' roles as producers and land stewards. Secondly, we explore encounters between local cultures, interests, and environmental regulations in the context of different site-based environmentalities. The framework we adopt enables coexistence to be conceived as a space of competing knowledges and practices, arising from everyday embodied interactions with wolves and the cultural politics through which local communities negotiate different ways of governing, knowing, and relating to nature.
Grants:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad RYC-2015-18932 Agencia Estatal de Investigación CGL2017-87528-R
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
Note:	Altres ajuts: GRUPIN research grant IDI/2021/000075 from the Regional Government of Asturias
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Canis lupus ; Coexistence ; Environmentality ; Human-wildlife Conflict ; Large Carnivores ; Wolves ; SDG 15 - Life on Land
Published in:	Conservation and Society, Vol. 20, Issue 4 (2022) , p. 345-357, ISSN 0975-3133

DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_66_21

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