Wild Life: Institute for Hybrid Ecology

Typical definitions of the term “wild” are often negative in structure: wild animals are undomesticated or untamed, plants are uncultivated, spaces and landscapes are uninhabited, and people are ungoverned. Embedded in the very structure of language, the wild or the “natural” order of the world is set in opposition to human habitation. Nature is wild, while human nature is cultured, civilized, ordered, controlled. This binary view of human versus nature is overly reductive and destructive because it positions humans outside of, and detached from, nature [1]. This detachment allows humans to argue that the appropriation, extraction, and exploitation of natural resources, other species, and people is reasonable and inevitable, justifying actions that lead to ecosystem collapse and environmental injustice [2].

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.42

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1