Michaela Fenske is a professor of European Ethnology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Bernhard Tschofen is a professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• 1 Human encounters with wolves: an introduction 2 The Beast of Gévaudan as a history of the changing perceptions of fatal human-wolf interaction 3 Made of stone, flesh and narration – ‘the wolf’ as contested lieu de mémoire 4 The story of Wanderwolf: a contested tale on the re-emergence of ‘new wilderness’ in the Netherlands 5 "One feels a shiver" – wolf perceptions and representations in Portugal 6 Actualizing wolves: environmental education settings as part of wolf management in Switzerland 7 Modes of involvedness. Theorising different ways of relating within the Swiss wolf debate 8 Diverging worlds of biodiversity and biosecurity: the presence of wolves in a Swiss Alpine territory 9 Getting close(r). Alive or dead: biography, individuality and agency of the wolf MT610 Hunting wild animals in Germany: conflicts between wildlife management and ‘traditional’ practices of Hege 11 Ways of speaking, responsibility and the animals ‘of the forest’ in Northwest Russia12 Predators and reindeer on the same pastures?

Michaela Fenske is a professor of European Ethnology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Bernhard Tschofen is a professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• 1 Human encounters with wolves: an introduction 2 The Beast of Gévaudan as a history of the changing perceptions of fatal human-wolf interaction 3 Made of stone, flesh and narration – ‘the wolf’ as contested lieu de mémoire 4 The story of Wanderwolf: a contested tale on the re-emergence of ‘new wilderness’ in the Netherlands 5 "One feels a shiver" – wolf perceptions and representations in Portugal 6 Actualizing wolves: environmental education settings as part of wolf management in Switzerland 7 Modes of involvedness. Theorising different ways of relating within the Swiss wolf debate 8 Diverging worlds of biodiversity and biosecurity: the presence of wolves in a Swiss Alpine territory 9 Getting close(r). Alive or dead: biography, individuality and agency of the wolf MT610 Hunting wild animals in Germany: conflicts between wildlife management and ‘traditional’ practices of Hege 11 Ways of speaking, responsibility and the animals ‘of the forest’ in Northwest Russia12 Predators and reindeer on the same pastures?

Michaela Fenske is a professor of European Ethnology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Bernhard Tschofen is a professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• 1 Human encounters with wolves: an introduction 2 The Beast of Gévaudan as a history of the changing perceptions of fatal human-wolf interaction 3 Made of stone, flesh and narration – ‘the wolf’ as contested lieu de mémoire 4 The story of Wanderwolf: a contested tale on the re-emergence of ‘new wilderness’ in the Netherlands 5 "One feels a shiver" – wolf perceptions and representations in Portugal 6 Actualizing wolves: environmental education settings as part of wolf management in Switzerland 7 Modes of involvedness. Theorising different ways of relating within the Swiss wolf debate 8 Diverging worlds of biodiversity and biosecurity: the presence of wolves in a Swiss Alpine territory 9 Getting close(r). Alive or dead: biography, individuality and agency of the wolf MT610 Hunting wild animals in Germany: conflicts between wildlife management and ‘traditional’ practices of Hege 11 Ways of speaking, responsibility and the animals ‘of the forest’ in Northwest Russia12 Predators and reindeer on the same pastures?