What place does “wilderness” occupy in our contemporary practices and representations?

This forthcoming issue, co-edited by Magali Bessone (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Alice Doublier-Akakpo and Juliette Roussin (Université Laval), theorizes that the various uses of wilderness and, more generally, the categorization of beings, spaces and practices as wild, is best understood in terms of manipulation. The issue proposes to articulate a reflection on the manipulation of wilderness for political or social ends around two axes: wilderness as a frontier and the politics of the wild as good and bad.

Papers are due by April 30, 2025; in the interim, you can send the organizers a summary of an article or a note, or an intention to translate previous work, to initiate a dialogue with the coordinating team.

You can find the full version of the call for submissions here.