Tourism, Heritage and Commodification of Non-human Animals: A Posthumanist Reflection

Jorge Iván Ruiz Barrera

ISBN 10: 1800623283 / ISBN 13: 9781800623286

Edité par CAB International, 2023

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781800623286

Synopsis :

Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies. It is commonly a positive assessment of many elements of the physical and human environment (e.g. ecosystems and landscapes, monuments, customs, gender norms, religious practices, gastronomy, and livelihoods). Heritage and tourism are strongly related to each other in that heritage gives rise to tourist attractions and activities, and tourism enhances the designation of heritage sites. <p/>Non-human animals (hereafter "animals") are present as implicit or explicit heritage elements through multiple tourist environments: animals may be themselves the heritage focus of tourist interest (visual arts, gastronomy, as charismatic and distinguished beings, as part of festivities or rituals), or it may be that animals are agents involved in heritage tourist environments such as working animals or in recreational activities. <p/>A post-humanist perspective - the moral valuation of equality between humans and other animals - demands that both are sentient beings and self-aware of their pain and pleasure. Thus, the involvement of animals as heritage elements by themselves or as an element of tourist consumption in heritage sites implies their commodification and lack of agency. As such, these practices are usually unethical, since they threaten the animals' primary interests: not to suffer, not to feel pain and to be able to live their freedom. <p/>This book contains chapters that reveal both the unethical interactions between humans and animals within heritage tourism, and those that show experiences in which efforts are made to minimize damage within the commercialization of animals involved as heritage themselves. <p/>It will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics, NGOs and tourism planners.

À propos de l'auteur: Álvaro López-López has a PhD in Geography from Arts Faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Geography, UNAM, and also a professor in the undergraduate and graduate programs in Geography at UNAM where he teaches "Space and Tourism." His basic line of research has been the "geography of tourism in Mexico," from which he has developed research projects about "sex tourism," "dark tourism," and the "intersection between the geography of tourism and the geography of animals" among others. He was the president of the Mexican Academy of Tourism Research.<br /><br />Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas has a PhD in Geography from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Postdoctoral fellowship in the Bioethics University Program (UNAM) in zoo ethics. He is an academic fellow at Monash University and the University of Sydney, both in Australia. He is currently a full-time associate researcher at the Institute of Social Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales) UNAM. He is also a professor of "Geography and Ethics" and "Animal Geography" in the bachelor degree in Geography at UNAM, and professor of "Ethics, Territory and Environment" in the postgraduate program of Geography, at UNAM. He is one of the coordinators of both the Permanent Seminar on Critical Studies in Tourism and the Permanent Seminar on Critical Animal Studies.<br /><br />Carol Kline is a Professor and the Director of the Hospitality and Tourism Management Program at Appalachian State University. Her teaching and research interests have historically focused broadly on tourism sustainability, including topics such as foodie segmentation, craft beverages, agritourism, tourism entrepreneurship, and tourism in developing economies. However, she now gears her research solely on animals and she teaches a course called Animals, Tourism, & Sustainability. She is part of the Race, Ethnicity, and Social Equity in Tourism (RESET) initiative, which includes animals within the study of social equity. She is founder of Fanimal Inc., a non-profit that helps individuals find animal-focused careers.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Tourism, Heritage and Commodification of ...
Éditeur : CAB International
Date d'édition : 2023
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New