%0 Journal Article
%T Wildness as vitality: A relational approach
%A April S. Vannini
%A Phillip Vannini
%J Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
%@ 2514-8494
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2514848619834882
%X Countless authors have deconstructed both the romantic and the troubled history of wildness and wilderness, yet very few researchers have ever asked people: ¡°What does wild mean to you?¡± In doing so, with our research we aim to understand wildness as a phenomenological and relational entity and aim to make sense of the multiple ways in which personal entanglements with particular places inform contingent and place-based ideas of wildness. Although there are many dimensions to both the experience and the idea of wildness, in this paper we reflect in particular on one: vitality. We draw our data from dozens of interviews held across Canada and base our interpretations on a combination of traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge, relational ontologies, and more-than-representational theories
%K Wilderness
%K non-representational theories
%K vitality
%K traditional indigenous ecological knowledge
%K audiovisual methods
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2514848619834882