Earth:Rewilding (anarchism)
Rewilding means to return to a more wild or natural state; it is the process of undoing domestication.[1][2] The term emerged from green anarchism and anarcho-primitivism.[3] The central argument is that the majority of humans have been "civilized" or "domesticated" by agrarianism and sedentary social stratification. Such a process is compared to how dogs have been domesticated from what was a common ancestor with wolves, resulting in a loss in health and vibrancy. Supporters of rewilding argue that through the process of domestication, human wildness has been altered by force.[4]
Rewilding encourages the conscious undoing of human domestication and returning to the lifeways of hunter-gatherer cultures. Though often associated with primitive skills and learning knowledge of wild plants and animals, it emphasizes regenerative land management techniques employed by hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists, as well as development of the senses and fostering deepening personal relationships with members of other species and the natural world.[5][6] Rewilding intends to create permanently wild human cultures beyond domestication.[3]
Rewilding is considered a holistic approach to living, as opposed to specific or separate skills, practices or knowledges.[5]
Rewilding is most associated with green anarchy and anarcho-primitivism or anti-civilization and post-civilization anarchism in general.[7]
See also
- Lifestyle disease
- Diseases of affluence
- Pleistocene Rewilding
- Green Anarchist
- Hemeroby
- Species Traitor
- The World Without Us
- Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding
- Self-domestication § Modern Humans
References
- ↑ Scout, Urban (2008) Rewild or Die. Urban Scout LLC, Oregon. pg. 1. ISBN:978-0-578-03248-1
- ↑ Olsen, Miles (2012) Unlearn, Rewild. New Society Publishing, British Columbia, CAN. pg. 10. ISBN:978-0-86571-721-3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Rewilding" from Green Anarchist Infoshop
- ↑ GA Collective & Coalition Against Civilization, "The Origins of Civilization "
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Scout, Urban (2008) Rewild or Die. Urban Scout LLC, Oregon. ISBN:978-0-578-03248-1
- ↑ Medrano, Finisia (2011) Growing Up in Occupied America. Lulu Press, Oregon. ISBN:978-1-257-17786-8
- ↑ The GA & Wildroots Collectives, "A Primer for a Balanced Existence Amid the Ruins of Civilization "
External links
- Rewild Portland
- ReWild University
- "A Primitivist Primer"
- Re-Wilding
- The Rewilding Institute
- How Human Rewilding Works
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