Molecularising Nature: How Scandinavian Wolves Became Natural

  • Håkon B. Stokland Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Abstract


This paper examines the construction and stabilisation of Scandinavian wolves as natural and worthy of protection. I argue that molecular biology was crucial to this process, and that the most significant work of the molecular biologists was to construct boundaries between pairs of categories, such as natural and unnatural.

Author Biography

Håkon B. Stokland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Håkon B. Stokland is currently a PhD student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His thesis will investigate the research and management of wolves in Norway since the 1960s. The project is situated at the intersection of science and technology studies, environmental history, history of science, and policy history.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.16.525
Published
05-Jun-2013
How to Cite
Stokland, Håkon. 2013. “Molecularising Nature: How Scandinavian Wolves Became Natural”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 16 (June), 1 - 9. https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.16.525.
Issue
No 16 (2013): Un/Natural Histories
Section
Articles

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