ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the history and philosophy of wilderness, its representations in the media, its experience and practice, its contentious development and exploitations, its conservation policies and management, and finally it's rethinking or reassembling. It explores with a multidisciplinary and global approach strategy that encompasses a comprehensive review of the literature and a careful development of original conceptual argument on wilderness as assemblage. The book shows how wilderness has been a subject of the social imagination and the collective generation of ideas about nature and culture for a very long time. It examines ways in which wilderness is and has been represented in discourses for and by the 'general public'. The book also explores the ways in which wilderness is experienced by its regular users, dwellers, and one-time, short-term visitors.
