Critical reviewReimagining rewilding: A response to Jørgensen, Prior, and Ward

- Jørgensen's, Prior's, and Ward's rewilding conversation is continued and expanded.
- Feldman's work expands a focus on European geographies.
- Two fictional works expand research to include the humanities.
- Empathy is given as a reason to include imaginary writings in rewilding debates.

This article continues and expands the conversation initiated by Jørgensen on the need to rethink rewilding, which elicited a response from Prior and Ward. To spur further conversation, my response to both papers argues for two modes of discourse expansion: geographical and disciplinary. Although both articles gesture toward global rewilding sites, their discussions remain focused on European geographies. I offer James Feldman's environmental history of the Apostle Islands to extend a geographical purview beyond European contexts. Secondly, I take up these papers' implicit call for humanities scholars to join this conversation, and I argue for the relevance and importance of fictional writings to a debate regarding rewilding. I briefly introduce two recent fictional works and argue for their place in rewilding conversations based on the ability of imaginary writings to develop empathy.