Rewilding
- See also: Pleistocene Rewilding
Rewilding is the process of creating a culture that is beyond domestication.[1] In green anarchism and anarcho-primitivism, humans are said to be "domesticated" by civilization. Supporters of such human rewilding argue that through the process of domestication, human wildness has been tamed and taken away.[2] Rewilding, then, is about overcoming human domestication and returning to the innate wildness. Though often associated with primitive skills and learning knowledge of wild plants and animals, it emphasizes primal living as a holistic reality rather than just a number of skills or specific type of knowledge.
Rewilding is most associated with green anarchy and anarcho-primitivism or anti-civilization anarchy in general,[3] though there is a large primitive living contingent who come at it from a less militant direction.[4]
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In the field of conservation biology, the term 'rewilding' refers to passive and active actions intended to result in the reintroduction of extirpated or once-native species back into natural landscapes. In North America, if the temporal benchmark for what constitutes native species is pre-Columbian (prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus), then the action is a kind of deep-time rewilding, as in Pleistocene rewilding.
References
- ^ "Rewilding" from Green Anarchist Infoshop
- ^ GA Collective & Coalition Against Civilization, "The Origins of Civilization
- ^ The GA & Wildroots Collectives, "A Primer for a Balanced Existence Amid the Ruins of Civilization"
- ^ "Visons" page at SacredLands.org
See also
- Green Anarchist
- Pleistocene Rewilding
- Assisted migration
- Invasive species
- Species Traitor
- urban prairie
- Korean Demilitarized Zone
- The World Without Us
External links
- Re-Wilding
- The Rewilding Institute
- REWILD.info
- Wildland network UK
- Self-willed land
- Stozenburg, William. Where the Wild Things Were. Conservation in Practice 7(1):28-34.
- "A Primitivist Primer"
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