Uncivilized Behaviors: How Humans Wield “Feral” to Assert Power (and Control) over Other Species

What is it about?

The paper examines the various usages of the word “feral” and what this means for the animals given this label. Feral is an example of a “power word” that is used by different interest groups to justify their treatment of subpopulations within a given species. Most often “feral” used to describe an unwelcome presence, and can be contrasted to alternative words, such as “wild” or “free-living” that control how these presences are perceived by humans.

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