Complexities of multispecies coexistence: Animal diseases and diverging modes of ordering at the wildlife–livestock interface in Southern Africa

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Title:Main Title: Complexities of multispecies coexistence: Animal diseases and diverging modes of ordering at the wildlife–livestock interface in Southern Africa
Description:Abstract: The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only through the relations between species, but also as characterized by a collision of modes of ordering. Drawing on expert interviews and a discourse analysis of policy documents and reports, we identify three modes of ordering coexistence: a categorical and increasingly disfavoured mode of species eradication, a territorial mode focused on containment and separation, and an infrastructural mode premised on connectivity between populations, landscapes and ecosystems. Together, these different modes of ordering pose a challenge to scienti c knowledge production; where uncertainties present themselves not so much in the form of ignorance or knowledge gaps, but rather in the form of ambiguity: of knowing diseases and species differently. In this view, living with pathogens becomes a matter of recognizing the partiality of knowledge and the positionality of knowledge producers and users, as well as highlighting potential sites of alignment.
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Creators:Arvid Van Dam (Author), Wisse Van Engelen (Author), Detlef Müller-Mahn (Author), Sheila B. Agha (Author), Sandra Junglen (Author), Christian Borgemeister (Author), Michael Bollig (Author)
Publisher:Sage Journals
Publication Year:2023
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TRR228 Topic:Ecology
Related Subproject:ERC Rewilding the Anthropocene
Subjects:Keywords: Multi-Species Ethnography, Wildlife
Geogr. Information Topic:Environment
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Filename:ErcRewilding_WP7_Output_ComplexitiesOfMultispeciesCoexistence.pdf
Data Type:Data Paper - Journal article
File Size:1.6 MB
Date:Available: 17.04.2023 (First published online)
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Language:English
Status:Completed
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Publication Status:Published
Review Status:Peer reviewed
Publication Type:Article
Article Type:Journal
Source:EPE: Nature and Space
Issue:1
Volume:7
Number of Pages:22 (353 - 374)
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Metadata Creator:Paula Linstädter
Metadata Created:18.06.2025
Metadata Last Updated:18.06.2025
Subproject:ERC Rewilding the Anthropocene
Funding Phase:2
Metadata Language:English
Metadata Version:V50
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