The settlers chase the wolves away: Karen M. Winter, Critically Interrogation Wolf Eradication and Management Policy Through a Settler Colonial Lens: Towards a Compassionate Future, PhD dissertation, Antioch University, 2024 | settler colonial studies blog

The settlers chase the wolves away: Karen M. Winter, Critically Interrogation Wolf Eradication and Management Policy Through a Settler Colonial Lens: Towards a Compassionate Future, PhD dissertation, Antioch University, 2024

30Nov24

Abstract: This largely conceptual multi-article dissertation centers settler colonial theory in a critical interrogation of Wolf eradication and management policy (WEMP) toward the ultimate goal of dismantling injurious structures and systems that brutalize Wolf and other Indigenous animals. Wildlife policy and practice are contemporary manifestations of the long-standing historical project of settler colonialism and its quest for acquisition and ultimate control of Land. Thus, the ongoing hegemonic control of systems of wildlife management and the propensity toward lethal control are also inextricably linked to the oppression of Indigenous worldview about human relationship with the natural world. Settler colonialism, as the nexus of a critical analysis of the concepts explored in this work, reveals essential understandings of WEMP for combatting the hegemony of this normalized, extremist violence. Essential understandings include the convergence of oppression of Indigenous animals and peoples and the need for solidarity building, the utility of settler colonial theory to engage stakeholders in Wolf conflict transformation, the importance of standardizing and operationalizing the concept of compassion in humane pedagogy, inclusive of individual and social psychological barriers to compassionate response to this cruelty.

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