Entanglement, autonomy and the co-production of landscapes: relational geographies for free-roaming ‘feral’ donkeys (Equus asinus) in a rapidly changing world

摘要: Abstract For thousands of years, the donkey (Equus asinus) has played an essential role in human society, underpinning earliest forms civilisation, facilitating critical trade networks, contributing to agricultural development, construction and mining. However, with rise motorised transport machinery, was gradually turned loose many places, left free roam. The emergence freeroaming populations brought novel challenges for conservationists, land managers animal welfarists alike. As non-native species that live breed independently large numbers, free-roaming donkeys appear as ambiguous indeterminate group wild-domestic creatures sit uneasily rapidly changing landscapes, societies economies. This paper explores status ongoing tension between wild domestic, including binary thinking underpins it produces or ‘out place’. Using a relational approach paying attention various ways which are entangled embedded within cultural historical this suggests how might be re-examined terms their ‘entangled autonomy’, building on recent interventions ‘wild’ geographies ‘feral’ political ecologies. In doing so, reframes debate around posits argument they considered ‘belong’ have legitimacy these suggesting more needs given spaces places create contribute to, well those disrupt challenge.