ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the wilderness areas that are contested territories. It argues chiefly in assemblage geographies, in relational orientations to the environment, and in theoretical developments that emphasize inhabitation, rather than construction, of the world, that merely applies existing ideas. The book begins with a brief explanation of what an assemblage is and then delves in greater depth into how wilderness sites are assembled. It discusses to the notion of the meshwork. The book also discusses how wilderness is knotted together as a meshwork. It outlines how different actors are entangled in wilderness assemblages. The book explores how wilderness is both a real place and an abstract ideal, how places and ideals have changed throughout recent history, and how in the process of changing they have informed one another.
