Exploring non-human work in tourism : : From beasts of burden to animal ambassadors / / ed. by Carol Kline, Jillian M. Rickly.

Critical animal studies is increasingly interfacing with tourism research in an effort to shed light on the various ways animals are incorporated into touristic experience. Exploring non-human work in tourism: From beasts of burden to animal ambassadors builds upon the theoretical connections of ani...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Studies in Tourism , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 275 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction: Working for the (hu)man in the tourism industry
  • Part 1: Theoretical considerations
  • 2 Conceptualizing non-human animals as “workers” within the tourism industry
  • 3 Redefining the work of working animals in the tourism industry: An animal-centric reflection
  • Part 2: Performative work
  • 4 Working donkeys in northwestern Mexico: Urban identity and tourism resources
  • 5 Animal dark tourism in Mexico: Bulls performing their own slaughter
  • 6 Farm animals’ participation in tourism experiences: A time for proper respect
  • Part 3: Value-added work
  • 7 Animals as tourism stakeholders: Huskies, reindeer, and horses working in Lapland
  • 8 Distributed leadership in tourism experiences: Russian sled dogs and Icelandic horses leading the way
  • 9 A working holiday: From home to destination with a guide dog
  • 10 The donkeys of Santorini: Workers or slaves?
  • 11 Monkey see, monkey do: The work of primates in Costa Rican sanctuaries
  • 12 The greening of polar bears: Lively commodities in a climate change economy
  • 13 “Cute, but get up and work!”: The biophilia hypothesis in tourists’ linguistic interactions with pandas
  • Part 5: Reflections
  • 14 Working animal research: An agenda for the future
  • 15 Afterword: On tourism, animals, and suffering – lessons from Aeschylus’ Oresteia
  • List of contributors
  • List of figures
  • Index