Feral Wild Boars. Politics of Nature in African Sewin Fever Crisis on the Appenines (Quattro Province Region)

Abstract

In a context of entangled multi-crisis, the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus has socially transformed the meanings of wild boars: from a reinvented autochthonous animal deeply intertwined with the social history of the Apennines into an invader within war frames and technical and veterinary reductionism. By undermining the pig agribusiness industry, frames and economies of war return to the fore in a social drama that exposes the policies of nature by multiple social actors: wild boars’ ecological success shows the need to follow the “prospects” of wild boar in the “making of the world”, as they become a feral mirror of our abandonment and ruins in inland areas.