Rewilding Gender: Toward Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’

Kim Ward

doi:10.1111/area.70072

Rewilding Gender: Toward Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’

Kim Ward

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Abstract

This commentary reframes gender and rewilding through a relational understanding of wildness. Moving beyond a binary lens of ‘the wild’, it examines how gendered relations shape rewilding's material, emotional, and epistemic dimensions. Centring relational wildness exposes how rewilding challenges masculine imaginaries of control and ownership while opening space for more equitable multispecies relations.

Original language	English
Article number	e70072
Journal	Area
Volume	57
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70072
Publication status	Published - 27 Nov 2025

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 15 Life on Land

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Geography, Planning and Development

Keywords

Rewilding
gender
rewilding
rural geography
wildness
wild

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