Living with wolves

The wolves are returning to Germany - and with them come the conflicts between humans and wolves. Central to this are the affects, atmospheres, feelings, and moods that their return triggers. Using ethnographic methods, Thorsten Gieser examines the complex interweaving of nature and society in the Anthropocene. His thesis: The wolves move and touch us in a shared living world, thereby initiating a process of rethinking ourselves as a more-than-human society. He presents ways to engage constructively with affects, proposes a complex understanding of wolves as affective actors, and thus radically redefines the human-wolf relationship.