Common sensing: Human-black bear cohabitation practices in Colorado

Boonman‐Berson, Susan; Turnhout, Esther; Carolan, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.06.010

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“…These observational methods have also been used by ethologists and multispecies ethnographers to explore the experience of free-ranging animals. Notable examples include work on urban hyenas (Baynes-Rock, 2015), reindeer herding (H Lorimer, 2006), dairy farming (Holloway et al, 2014), bird migration (Van Dooren, 2014), human–bear cohabitation (Boonman-Berson et al, 2016), and elephant crop raiding (Barua, 2014). These studies develop multisensory and kinaesthetic methodologies through which the researcher ‘learns to be affected’ (Despret, 2004) by their target organism, developing a ‘somatic sensibility’ (Greenhough and Roe, 2011) that helps attune them to the animal’s experience of mobility.…”

Section: How Animals’ Mobilities Can Be Knownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Animals’ mobilities

Hodgetts¹,

Lorimer

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper draws together animal and mobility studies to develop the concept of animals’ mobilities. It identifies the parallel intellectual interests in these fields that provide the intellectual foundations for this synthesis, in mobility (over movement), affect, relational space, and ordering practices. It explores what configures an animal’s mobility, knowledge practices for researching and evoking animals’ mobilities, and how animals’ mobilities are governed. The conclusion highlights what these fields gain from this synthesis, and identifies the empirical, political and conceptual contributions that this concept makes to geographical research. The argument is illustrated with examples of large, terrestrial mammals, especially bears.

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Section: How Animals’ Mobilities Can Be Knownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Animals’ mobilities

Hodgetts¹,

Lorimer

2018

Progress in Human Geography

110

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“…The notion of mindedness helps understanding of the affective relationships that emerge in wildlife management, including the embodiment, and multi‐sensory exchanges between humans, wild boars and the landscape, as well as how animals respond to and participate in management interventions (Alcayna‐Stevens, ; Barua, ; Boonman‐Berson et al., ; Despret, ; Haraway, ; Mason & Hope, ). This includes counting, hunting and the production of wild boar knowledge, knowledge of which it is no longer meaningful to say is exclusive to humans, as perhaps can be said of the ecological models running on office computers, far removed from the grunting of a stressed sow and the mixed smells of ripening corn in the morning.…”

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“…Preferably, management strategies are non‐lethal, since these reinforce, rather than disrupt, social relations among wild animals, including their ways of learning and remembering. Examples of such strategies in wildlife management are the use of sheepdogs to protect little penguins from red foxes in Australia (Bekoff & Pierce, ), and the use of non‐lethal paintballs to scare black bears away from human surroundings (Boonman‐Berson et al., ). Yet, as part of this management approach, it can be argued (although this may be contested) to be important to also accept that sometimes wild animals, who we got to know in some way as subjects, might starve, or would need to be killed.…”

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“…In much of this more‐than‐human work however, the “acts” of the wild animals (presence, absence and movement) in response to the presence, absence and movement of the humans in a particular landscape continue to be underrepresented (for some exceptions see: Barua, ; Boonman‐Berson et al., ). In this paper, we develop a more symmetrical approach that addresses the different ways humans and wild animals respond to each other as they roam the landscape.…”

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Managing wild minds: From control by numbers to a multinatural approach in wild boar management in the Veluwe, the Netherlands

Boonman‐Berson

Driessen

Turnhout

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Current wildlife management practices rely largely on quantitative data to legitimise decisions, manage human-wildlife conflicts and control wildlife populations. This paper draws attention to the affective relationships between humans and animals inevitably formed in the practice of producing these data. Based on fieldwork that explores wild boar management in the Veluwe, the Netherlands, we demonstrate the significance of these affective encounters. Specifically, we develop an understanding of mindedness that draws on processes of affective learning in wildlife management practices. To understand this mindedness and how it emerges in wild boar management practices, we use the concepts of affect, attunement and animal subjectivities. First, we show how the numero-politics involved in wildlife management presumes animal minds to be static and generically defined by species, and their presence and behaviour to be context independent. Subsequently, we describe the entanglements of humans, wild animals and the landscape, aiming to produce an appreciation of the mutuality that is involved in knowing and conserving wildlife. This, we propose, helps to demonstrate how variousindividual or collectiveforms of human and non-human mindedness are implicated in management practices but remain invisible and underappreciated in formal accounts. We conclude by explicating a multinatural approach to the management of wildlife that explicitly builds on an acknowledgment of mindedness as a feature of individuals, collectives and landscapes. K E Y W O R D Saffective relations, human-wildlife relations, mindedness, Veluwe, wild boar, wildlife management

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“…The findings on public acceptability of wildlife management interventions (Chapter 5) could encourage wildlife managers to strive for non-lethal approaches to manage humanwildlife conflicts. In addition to drive shooting, there are many non-lethal options that can be applied to different conflicts, wildlife species, and situations (Boonman-Berson, Turnhout, & Carolan, 2016;).…”

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Understanding human responses to wildlife in Malaysia

Abidin¹,

Azizi²

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Although this PhD journey has come to an end, the effort to protect wildlife will continue forever. This thesis probably makes only a very small contribution to the conservation of animals and wildlife. Small as it may be, I hope it will benefit the readers, people in general, and all wildlife species out there. Writing this thesis is not something I did alone. There are many people that helped me throughout this adventurous and difficult journey. I would like to take this opportunity to convey my heartfelt gratitude and sincere appreciation to all the people who have supported and inspired me during my PhD journey. First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my promoter and copromoter Rene and Maarten. Thank you Rene for the input and help during my PhD journey. Also, thanks from the bottom of my heart to Maarten for your guidance, input, feedback, and all your consideration, patience, and understanding in helping me to cross the finish line. It was a privilege for me to be a PhD student under your supervision for these four and half years. Thank you so much for believing in me in the first place and offering me the opportunity to embark on this journey. I always enjoyed the discussion we had, whether it was about this PhD, life as academics, or family matters. I am also immensely grateful to Claudio, my previous promoter, for accepting me as a PhD student. It would not have been possible to do this PhD project without sufficient financial support. Therefore, I would like to thank the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia and Universiti Putra Malaysia for financing my study in Wageningen University. My sincere gratitude is extended to the staff of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks of Peninsular Malaysia in Cheras (Headquarters), Kluang and Johor Bahru, particularly to Mr. Shamsul, for their technical and professional support during my fieldwork. My sincere thanks also go to all students and inhabitants who participated in this study. Special thanks also to Ivo van der Lans for his assistance in the data analysis process in chapter 5. I am also grateful to the anonymous Acknowledgement vi journal reviewers for their thorough and critical assessments of some of the chapters in this thesis. During my PhD journey, I have met many good and kind people. I would like to thank all staff and group members (current and former) of the Cultural Geography group.

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Common sensing: Human-black bear cohabitation practices in Colorado

Cited by 31 publications

References 45 publications

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Managing wild minds: From control by numbers to a multinatural approach in wild boar management in the Veluwe, the Netherlands

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