Unmaking the Feral: The Shifting Relationship between Domestic-Wild Pigs and Settler Australians

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378076%3A_____%2F23%3A00575553" target="_blank" >RIV/68378076:_____/23:00575553 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/15/2/19/380189/Unmaking-the-FeralThe-Shifting-Relationship" target="_blank" >https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/15/2/19/380189/Unmaking-the-FeralThe-Shifting-Relationship</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10422267" target="_blank" >10.1215/22011919-10422267</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unmaking the Feral: The Shifting Relationship between Domestic-Wild Pigs and Settler Australians

Original language description

Domesticated pigs (Sus scrofa) were introduced as livestock in Australia by European settlers, and now a large population is living wild. Rather than interrogate the settler pig as co-colonizer and destroyer of Australian ecologies, this article employs Deborah Bird Rose’s concept of “unmaking”—a process that fractures relationality in service of control—to articulate the relational violence done to the free-living pig by naming it a feral animal. An examination of the nonhuman’s historical entanglement with Anglo-Australian settlers in New South Wales will trace the free-living pigs’ shifting agency and identity. Introduced pigs were modern English breeds, domesticates in nascent capitalist stages of unmaking. Yet, these animals were made anew in Australia, living largely unmediated and demonstrating remarkable adaptability to novel environments. This article analyzes how porcine bodies and identities took shape in connection to a hunting culture and wild pork economy, a practice that encouraged Sus scrofa’s transformative ability to move between wild and domestic domains. Then, in the 1950s, how farmers, veterinarians, and government actors with converging motivations sought to reductively read the free-living pig as toxic and illegitimate, and to rebrand the “wild” pig as “feral.” To be feral in Australia is to be part of a systematic process that institutes strict limitations on an animal’s relational possibilities. By problematizing all life-sustaining connections the nonhuman being has with their environment, this process endeavors to radically unmake the socio-ecologies that constitute their being. Unmaking the feral targets the relational knots that make existence possible.nn

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF20_079%2F0017525" target="_blank" >EF20_079/0017525: Hunting the Unruly Pigs of the New Wild: An anthropology of recreational pig hunting</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Humanities

ISSN

2201-1919

e-ISSN

2201-1919

Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

19-38

UT code for WoS article

001051749100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85168465169