Wild Performatives: Experiments in Rewilding at the Knepp Wildland Project. Issue 2 (3rd July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Overend, David; Lorimer, Jamie
• Is Part Of: GeoHumanities. Volume 4:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 527
• Page End: 542
• Publication Date: 2018-07-03
• Subjects: conservation -- Knepp -- performance -- rewilding -- transdisciplinarity; 保育 -- 奈普 -- 展演 -- 再荒野化 -- 跨领域性; conservación -- Knepp -- representación -- recuperación silvestre -- transdisciplinaridad; Arts and geography -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2018.1478742
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2373-566X

Abstract

Abstract : This article reflects on a two-day creative workshop at Knepp Castle Estate in October 2017. Knepp is the location of a large-scale "rewilding" project established in 2002, which uses free-roaming herbivores to cultivate habitat change and restore natural processes. Using collaborative performance-making strategies, participants attempted to respond and contribute to the complex ecology of the site, exploring the potential for productive exchanges between human and nonhuman actors. The article focusses on a series of "wild performatives" that occurred during the event. Considering three possible applications of this concept, it investigates a range of affective encounters with ecologies, performances, and conceptualizations of rewilding.