Managing the Return of the Wild

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?