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Is Rewilding Twenty-First-Century Primitivism?

Ben Etherington
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 240–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11052901
Published: 01 June 2024
...Ben Etherington Abstract This essay considers whether the contemporary rewilding movement is a reincarnation of twentieth-century primitivism. Both reject capitalist modernity’s drive to dominate nature, and both idealize an originary or innate natural condition. Both are also galvanized...
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Primitivism Now, Primitivism Again: Introduction

Ben Etherington, Samuel J. Spinner
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 125–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11060583
Published: 01 June 2024
... abruptly exit civilization to live in nature. David Graeber and David Wengrow’s best-selling The Dawn of Everything critiques the ideal of a lost egalitarian state of nature only to substitute it with the ideal of an originary political creativity. The rewilding movement postulates an ecological...
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Afterword: Primitivism under Erasure

Simon Gikandi
Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (2): 260–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11054922
Published: 01 June 2024
... of rewilding, perhaps the most popular ecological genre of our time, Etherington sees both continuity and discontinuity in the afterlife of primitivism. On one hand, there are the classic tropes of primitivism: the person (usually a white man) dissatisfied with civilization sets out into the world...
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