Dingo dualisms: Exploring the ambiguous identity of Australian dingoes

• Main Author: Hytten, Karen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2009
• Subjects: Zoology not elsewhere classified; Ecology; Zoology; Griffith; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/29731

How wildlife is defined, and which wildlife is accorded protection, emerges from competing constructions of nature and culture. Few species of Australian wildlife have as ambiguous an identity as dingoes. This paper identifies three dualisms that characterise discourses relating to Australian dingoe...