Rewilding (anarchism)
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Rewilding is the process of creating a culture that is beyond domestication.[1] In green anarchism and anarcho-primitivism, humans are said to be "domesticated" by civilization. Supporters of such human rewilding argue that through the process of domestication, human wildness has been tamed and taken away.[2] Rewilding, then, is about overcoming human domestication and returning to the innate wildness. Though often associated with primitive skills and learning knowledge of wild plants and animals, it emphasizes primal living as a holistic reality rather than just a number of skills or specific type of knowledge.
Rewilding is most associated with green anarchy and anarcho-primitivism or anti-civilization anarchy in general,[3] though there is a large primitive living contingent who come at it from a less militant direction.[4]
However, in the rewilding world, there is yet much that is not represented by primitivism. Rewilding can also be used to convey the goal behind permaculture and sustainable communities, often noted as eco-villages. Within a productive, modern, and scientific social context, rewilding entails knowledge and understanding of the natural forces and laws, and working in accordance with them to produce a community that is free and beneficial to all involved. Participators of such events and communities directly reap the benefits of their actions and efforts. Instead of seeking to "return" to a place in time that we as humans have obviously evolved beyond, rewilding alternately seeks to take the experiences and time spent here in civilization, and combine the lessons that have been earned by no small means, from both the past and the present, to make a better future for us all. In this way, rewilding is a new and progressive development.
[edit] References
- ^ "Rewilding" from Green Anarchist Infoshop
- ^ GA Collective & Coalition Against Civilization, "The Origins of Civilization
- ^ The GA & Wildroots Collectives, "A Primer for a Balanced Existence Amid the Ruins of Civilization"
- ^ "Visons" page at SacredLands.org
[edit] See also
- Green Anarchist
- Pleistocene Rewilding
- Assisted migration
- Invasive species
- Species Traitor
- urban prairie
- Korean Demilitarized Zone
- The World Without Us
[edit] External links
- Re-Wilding
- The Rewilding Institute
- REWILD.info
- Rewild Europe
- Wildland network UK
- Self-willed land
- Stozenburg, William. Where the Wild Things Were. Conservation in Practice 7(1):28-34.
- "A Primitivist Primer"
