Valerio Donfrancesco
@VDonfrancesco
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Looking critically at human-wildlife relations. I draw on political ecology, the environmental humanities and conservation social sciences. Focus on carnivores.
Joined April 2011
RT @RGS_IBGhe: What are the limits of conservation strategies that frame wildlife primarily for its benefits?. @VDonfrancesco (@AbdnGeograp….
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By Valerio Donfrancesco, University of Aberdeen, and Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge A key question in conservation today is how humans and wildlife can coexist in shared landscapes. Conse…
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RT @GeogDirections: *New post* by @VDonfrancesco (@AbdnGeography) and @csandbrook (@CamUniGeography):. 'What does radical wildlife care loo….
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By Valerio Donfrancesco, University of Aberdeen, and Chris Sandbrook, University of Cambridge A key question in conservation today is how humans and wildlife can coexist in shared landscapes. Conse…
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RT @RGS_IBGhe: 📢New paper published in TIBG by @VDonfrancesco and @csandbrook (@CamUniGeography)📢. 'From biopower to affirmative biopolitic….
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Open access article: @CamUniGeography.Funding: ESRC (UKRI).#coexistence #wolves #farming #politicalecology.
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Exercises of biopower to promote human–wolf coexistence can have limited success. In contrast, affirmative biopolitics grounded in place-based ethics, which recognise wolves as subjects rather than...
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We argue for embracing affirmative biopolitics rather than biopower. Wolves could be valued beyond their services. Local ways of relating to wolves could be better recognised. Structural drivers of interspecies violence need tackling. Multispecies flourishing depends on this. 8/8.
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Caring for wolves is more complex than simply meaning not killing them. We engage with feminist ethics of care to articulate an approach to caring that is attendant to interspecies violence. Coexistence needs to be made a systemic project. 7/8.
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Yet, cost-of-living crises and socioeconomic hardships, under neoliberal policies that incentivise competitiveness and economies of scale, make wolf presence and impacts hard to manage locally. This increases the need for wolf culling, undermining coexistence. 6/8.
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Local ways of relating to wolves are fraught and embroiled. Depredations can be tolerated. Simultaneously, killing wolves can be a hands-on representation of what it might mean to navigate the intricacies of coexistence, rather than being at odds with caring for wolves. 5/8.
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We show how farmers can value wolves beyond the services they may provide, but based on the necessity of learning to live with other beings – a defining experience of being a farmer. We articulate these local ethical propensities as affirmative biopolitics. 4/8.
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Wolves are not a uniform category. Their ecological effects are dynamic, not always unfolding as expected. Their assumed economic benefits can be inequitably accessible locally. When wolves are framed by their benefits and these fail to materialise, conflict escalates. 3/8.
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Current wolf management approaches frame wolves as bringers of ‘ecological balance’ and economic benefits, seeking to foster greater acceptance of and tolerance for wolves, locally. We articulate these approaches as exercises of biopower. 2/8.
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I led this work in Tuscany, Italy exploring human-wolf relations through ethnography, participant observation and interviews. Wildlife is often associated with services, to promote its conservation. We show the limits of this approach and highlight an alternative. 1/8.
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Sharing the latest paper from my PhD, in Transactions (@RGS_IBGhe), coauthored by @csandbrook. We discuss wolves, farmers and interspecies violence. "From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves".A thread below.
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Exercises of biopower to promote human–wolf coexistence can have limited success. In contrast, affirmative biopolitics grounded in place-based ethics, which recognise wolves as subjects rather than...
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RT @ConservandSoc: Available now ahead of print: @VDonfrancesco's review of Living with Wolves: Affects, Feelings and Sentiments in Human-W….
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RT @journalofpolit1: Donfrancesco, V., (2024) “De- and re-peasantization through wolves: A more-than-human political ecology of agrarian ch….
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While wolves are often described as 'ecological engineers', this article reframes the image of this predator as a socioecological engineer. Adopting a more-than-human political ecology perspective, I...
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RT @sayan12011991: *Call for Papers* for ‘Understanding Political Ecologies of Wildlife Conservation Through Non-Human Lives’. I, Jared Mar….
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RT @mattadams0: Pls RT and share - Call for Papers – Exploring Human-Animal & Multispecies Relations: Risk Taking in Research .Methods Symp….
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RT @SarahMDurant: Come and work with the @CCIAfrica team at @ZSLScience -exciting new Science Officer position available for a large carniv….
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There’s a bunch of people whose insights have helped me complete this work, whom I have acknowledged in the paper. Here I take the chance to thank again my phd supervisor @csandbrook for the support, suggestions and encouragement in getting this study published (4/4).
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The discussion also touches on radical structural changes (concerning WTO and EU CAP) that could be considered for improving contemporary human-wolf interactions. The paper is open access. (3/4).
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