Living with Wolves
Affects, Feelings and Sentiments in Human-Wolf-Coexistence
Abstract
With their return to Germany, wolves leave their traces in personal feelings, in the atmospheres of rural landscapes and even in the sentiments and moods that govern political arenas. Thorsten Gieser explores the role of affects, emotions, moods and atmospheres in the emerging coexistence between humans and wolves. Bridging the gap between anthropology and ethology, the author literally walks in the tracks of wolves to follow their affective agency in a more-than-human society. In nuanced analyses, he shows how wolves move, irritate and excite us, offering answers to the primary question: What does it feel like to coexist with these large predators?
Keywords
Germany; Affects; Atmosphere; Emotion; Multispecies Ethnography; Coexistence; Wolves; Human-Wildlife Conflicts; Human; Animal; Human-Animal Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Ethnology; Cultural StudiesDOI
10.14361/9783839474709ISBN
9783839474709, 9783837674705, 9783839474709Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2024Series
Human-Animal Studies, 35Classification
Animals and society
Social and cultural anthropology