Animal Entanglements in Tourism and Leisure : Questions of Power, Relationality, and Obligations (Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality)

This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relations with nonhuman animals and our obligations to them. International in both its coverage and appeal, the volume includes a diverse range of case studies and examples, covering a variety of animal species, but also geographical and cultural contexts. In doing so, the book sheds light on the myriad ways in which animals, of all species, are impacted in a multitude of different ways by and through tourism and leisure experiences. To provide this analysis, the book explores human relations with nonhuman animals through the lens of those we love, those we hate, and those we never bother to "see." The book provides a discussion of why and how we, as humans in positions of power, need to see beyond our privileged humancentric positions to embrace our obligations to the animal other. In doing so, it asks difficult, but necessary, questions of tourism and leisure experiences that on initial inspection seem designed with nonhuman animal welfare at heart. The book critically reflects on whether such experiences are actually instances of humane washing and what is needed to take the tourism and leisure industry beyond this position. The need for the book reflects how we, as humans need to consider all animals when thinking of them in relation to tourism and leisure while moving beyond humancentric conceptualisations of nonhuman animal welfare and rights. This volume is a pivotal resource for students, scholars, and academics with an interest in tourism, hospitality, sustainability, zoology, geography, and sociology.