Rewilding is a distinctive form of ecological restoration that has emerged quite publicly within environmental policy and conservation advocacy circles. One of the fundamental tenets of rewilding is its emphasis on non-human autonomy, yet empirical examples that examine non-human autonomy are currently limited. While there is a growing body of literature on the biopolitics of broader environmental conservation strategies, there is comparatively little scholarship on the biopolitics of rewilding. This paper argues that autonomy should not be used as a boundary marker to denote ‘wild’ non-humans, but as a situated condition that is variable across locations. It offers an empirical study of the biopolitics that govern the different expressions of non-human autonomy at two different locations in Scotland, where beavers have been reintroduced. The findings reveal how, depending on location and context, modes of governance related to rewilding strategies co-exist and interplay with animal autonomy and forms of power in contradictory ways.

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海狸到苏格兰的重新引入：野性，生物政治和非人类自治的支持

荒野化是生态恢复的一种独特形式，已经在环境政策和环境保护倡导圈内公开出现。野蛮的基本原则之一是它强调非人类自治，但是目前检验非人类自治的经验例子很有限。虽然关于更广泛的环境保护战略的生物政治的文献越来越多，但有关野蛮生物政治的学术研究却相对较少。本文认为，自主性不应该用作表示“野生”非人类的边界标记，而应作为随位置变化的环境条件。它提供了对生物政治的实证研究，该生物政治控制了苏格兰两个不同地点的非人类自治的不同表现形式，在这些地点重新引入了海狸。