Unsanctioned life is often categorised as ‘feral’, a value-embedded term that orders non-humans in relation to various temporal-spatial, genetic or behavioural logics. Such labelling is frequently used to marginalise risky, undesirable life and allow space for strategies of control and regulation. Feral natures, however, might also be understood as an important, though frequently ignored, form of rewilding situated where strategies of conservation and biosecurity converge. Using the example of (re)introduced wild boar (Sus scrofa) in England as ‘feral rewilding’ in action, this paper considers how the politics around their presence are contested by actors who hold different understandings of wild boar and human-nonhuman relations more broadly. After a multi-century absence, over the last three decades farmed wild boar have escaped and been deliberately released, occasionally establishing autonomous and self-sustaining populations. This is most visible in the Forest of Dean where their unfamiliar presence has increasingly reconfigured social relations. Being categorised as ‘feral’ as a strategy of governance is a contributing factor to a fraught political landscape where wild boar belonging is constantly questioned.

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模糊的边界：野性野蛮，生物安全性和有争议的野猪在英国

未经认可的生活通常被归类为“野性”，这是一个价值嵌入的术语，根据各种时空，遗传或行为逻辑命令非人类。此类标签经常用于边缘化危险的不良生活并为控制策略提供空间。然而，野性也可以理解为一种重要的，尽管经常被忽视的野蛮形式，位于保护和生物安全战略融合的地方。本文以英国（重新）引进野猪（Sus scrofa）为例，称其为“野性野蛮”，本文考虑了对野猪存在的政治如何受到对野猪和人类与非人类关系的不同理解的演员的反抗。宽广地。一个多世纪以来，在过去的三十年中，养殖的野猪逃脱并被有意释放，偶尔建立了自治和自我维持的种群。这在迪恩森林中最为明显，在那里他们陌生的存在越来越多地重新配置了社会关系。被归类为“野性”作为一种治理策略，是一个充满野心的野猪归属不断受到质疑的政治环境的促成因素。