After the political transformation in Poland in 1989, the management of the wolf (Canis lupus) became strongly debated. The discussions concerned the need to protect the wolf, methods of protection and actors to be involved. Increasing social pressure resulted in a series of legal changes leading to the full protection of the species in 1998. Using the concept of discourse coalitions, we distinguished two groups of actors, which argued for or against changes of wolf policy. We also investigated the story-lines regarding the wolf and its management to find out which of them was institutionalised through the state wolf policy. Engaging with the literature on discursive politics of wildlife conservation, we suggest that the discourse coalition supporting wolf conservation successfully challenged the dominant vision of wolves by creating a new counter-discourse and promoting it, which led to a bottom-up institutional change. The discourse coalition supporting the status quo lacked discursive power to protect existing institutions. Our results contribute to the literature on human-carnivore coexistence by exploring socio-cultural factors related to the major institutional change of carnivore policy and by building capacity to critically evaluate and transcend existing paradigms for a better human-carnivore coexistence.

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狩猎还是保护？波兰狼管理中的话语联盟

1989 年波兰政治转型后，狼（Canis lupus）的管理引起了激烈的争论。讨论涉及保护狼的必要性、保护方法和参与的行动者。日益增加的社会压力导致了一系列法律变化，导致 1998 年对该物种的全面保护。使用话语联盟的概念，我们区分了两组参与者，他们支持或反对改变狼政策。我们还调查了有关狼及其管理的故事情节，以找出其中哪些是通过州狼政策制度化的。参与有关野生动物保护话语政治的文献，我们认为，支持狼保护的话语联盟通过创造新的反话语并对其进行推广，成功地挑战了狼的主导视野，从而导致了自下而上的制度变革。支持现状的话语联盟缺乏保护现有制度的话语权。我们的研究结果通过探索与食肉动物政策的主要制度变革相关的社会文化因素，以及通过建立批判性评估和超越现有范式以实现更好的人肉动物共存的能力，为人类与肉食动物共存的文献做出了贡献。