Wild experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen: rethinking environmentalism in the Anthropocene
Wild experiments at the Oostvaardersplassen: rethinking environmentalism in the Anthropocene
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DOI：
10.1111/tran.12030
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Driessen, Clemens
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作者：
Lorimer, Jamie;Driessen, Clemens
本文汇集了最近关于实验地理学的文献，以及进行科学和政治的实验模式的潜力。它考察了它们对人类世环境保护主义的影响。我们区分了实验的两种不同概念，对比了对实验的单一的现代科学理解和最近对审慎的公众实验的呼吁。发展野生实验的概念，我们确定了批判性探究的三个轴。这些问题涉及到非人类世界被发现或被创造的地位，在任何实验的实施中提供秩序和惊喜的重要性，以及公众参与决策的程度和方式。然后，我们通过一个自然保护的案例研究调查来说明这个框架的潜力，批判性地检查了在荷兰Oostvaardersplassen的圩田景观及其非人类居民的重新野生和去驯化的努力。这是一个典型的例子，表明在自然保护中，人们对野生动物的回归有着更广泛的热情。最后，我们反思了这些野生实验对于重新思考人类世的环境保护主义的更广泛的意义和潜力。
This paper draws together recent literatures on the geography of experiments and the potential of experimental modes of conducting science and politics. It examines their implications for environmentalism in the Anthropocene. We differentiate between two different conceptions of an experiment, contrasting the singular, modern scientific understanding of an experiment with recent appeals for deliberative public experiments. Developing the concept of wild experiments we identify three axes for critical enquiry. These relate to the status of the nonhuman world as found or made, the importance afforded order and surprise in the conduct of any experiment and the degree and means by which publics are included in decisionmaking. We then illustrate the potential of this framework through a case study investigation of nature conservation, critically examining efforts to rewild and de-domesticate a polder landscape and its nonhuman inhabitants at the Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands. This is a flagship example of the wider enthusiasm for rewilding in nature conservation. In conclusion we reflect on wider significance and potential of these wild experiments for rethinking environmentalism in the Anthropocene.