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SUMMARY:Time for rewilding: The chronobiopolitics of British nature recove
 ry  - Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford) 
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CONTACT:María Inés Hernández
DESCRIPTION:Rewilding is a new approach to wildlife conservation that chal
 lenges the temporalities of orthodox approaches to identifying and securin
 g desired environments. It encourages conservationists to look to deeper p
 asts and further futures as they formulate appropriate reference points fo
 r the Anthropocene. It figures conservation less as the prevention of spec
 ies extinction and more as the choreography of ecological processes to sec
 ure desired functions and services. This paper develops and applies a nove
 l conceptual framework for critically examining the more-than-human politi
 cs of rewilding by drawing together cognate literatures from political eco
 logy\, environmental philosophy\, time studies and queer and disability st
 udies to theorise the chrononormativities and chronobiopolitics of rewildi
 ng. The analysis comes in three parts. The first examines the normative po
 litical strategies of baselining and horizoning through which pasts and fu
 tures are mobilised to legitimate present rewilding practice. It then expl
 ores the environmental biopolitics through which temporal rhythms are chor
 eographed in the practices of rewilding\, exploring how processes of ecolo
 gical succession are curated and how rewilders deal with unexpected events
 . The final part of the analysis critiques the emerging chrononormativitie
 s and chronobiopolitics of rewilding and advocates for alternative models 
 more conducive to multispecies flourishing and resistance in more-than hum
 an crip ecologies. The analysis largely focuses on the use of large herbiv
 ores and native trees to enable afforestation in Britain\, while referring
  to examples of rewilding elsewhere. The conclusion identifies priorities 
 for future research on time in conservation and calls for continued concep
 tual engagement at the interface of political ecology and queer and disabi
 lity theories.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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