Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- The return of the wolves to Germany -- Living with wolves: coexistence as an affective affair -- Living with wolves: an etho‐ethnological approach -- Methodology: an ethnographic approach to human‐wolf coexistence -- Plan of the book -- 2. Wolf Affects -- Affective wolf bodies -- Encounter I: playful affects -- Encounter II: dangerous affects -- Encounter III: playful or dangerous affects? -- 3. Wolf Agency -- Wolf agency and coexistence -- How the wolves returned to the Westerwald -- Wolf agency in affective arrangements -- 4. Wolf Atmospheres -- Wolf atmospheres and the ecology of fear -- Rosenthal, Lusatia: a landscape of fear? -- Towards a concept of wolf atmosphere -- 5. Wolf Feelings -- The role of feelings, sentiments, and ethos -- Loved. Wanted. Sacrificed?": shepherds, wolves and sheep -- They have no respect!": hunters, wolves, and other wild animals -- They touch something deep inside me": wolf friends and wolves -- 6. Wolf Management as Affect Management -- The affective dynamics of wolf management -- Rationality as a guiding principle -- We take your concerns and fears seriously -- You also have to stir the mood -- Letting off steam, taking pressure out of the system -- EXCURSUS: affect management of wolves -- 7. Epilogue: towards a resting pulse of coexistence -- Intentional and unintentional consequences of following wolves as method -- The 'resting pulse of coexistence' and the 'queasy sometimes‑feeling' -- Coexistence with affect‐guided thinking, sensibility and resilience -- 8. Appendix -- 9. Bibliography.