Routledge Ethics of Tourism
Tourism Experiences And Animal Consumption
Contested Values, Morality and Ethics
Edited by Carol Kline
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1. Introduction: animal ethics, dietary regimes, and the consumption of
animals in tourism
ERIK COHEN
2. Feasting on friends: whales, puffins, and tourism in Iceland
EDWARD H. HUIJBENS
AND NÍELS EINARSSON
3. Consuming Shangri-la: orientalism, tourism, and eating Tibetan savory
pigs
TAO ZHOU AND BRYAN
GRIMWOOD
4. Who pays for our cheap meat? the impact of modern meat production on
slaughterhouse workers: considerations for tourists
BECKY JENKINS
5. Examining the correlation between tourism and the international trade of
peccary: ethical implications
MARINA ROSALES BENITES DE FRANCO AND JESÚS
ABEL MEJÍA MARCACCUZCO
6. Eating insects and tourism: ethical challenges in a changing world
ROBERT TODD PERDUE
7. Making a meal of it: a political ecology examination of whale meat and
tourism
BENEDICT E. SINGLETON
8. Barbecue tourism: the racial politics of belonging within the cult of
the pig
DEREK H. ALDERMAN AND
JANNA CASPERSEN
9. Fat duck as foie gras? Axiological implications of tourist experiences
ELISE MOGNARD
10. The ethical implication of tourism on guinea pig production: the case of
Cuenca, Ecuador
JOSÉ PRADA-TRIGO
11. Agritourism providers’ reflections on post-carbon treatment of the wild
white-tail deer
CHRISTINA T.
CAVALIERE AND RACHAEL VISCIDY
12. The metaphysical background of animal ethics and tourism in Japan
YOKO KITO
13. Consuming the king of the swamp: materiality and morality in South
Louisiana alligator tourism
ADAM KEUL
14. Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival: a shift in focus
HANNAH BROWN
15. Abstracting animals through tourism
CAROL KLINE
Notes on contributors
Jesús Abel Mejìa Marcacuzco is an agricultural engineer with a Master’s
Degree in Water Resources Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Agraria la
Molina-UNALM, Peru. Master in Hydrology obtained at the Free University of
Brussels, Belgium. Doctor of Hydraulic Engineering obtained at the University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Expert in Water Resources and Environment related with
ecosystems services.
Derek Alderman is Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee, where he
teaches and conducts research on the cultural and historical geographies of the
American South. His specific areas of interest include African American history
and memory, the politics of southern heritage and identity, and the tourism
landscape as an arena for struggles over social justice and racial belonging.
Dr. Alderman is a co-founder of the RESET (Race, Ethnicity, and Social Equity)
Initiative and the (co)author of over 110 peer-articles, chapters, and other
essays published in journals such as Current Issues in Tourism, Journal
of Heritage Tourism, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Travel & Tourism
Marketing, Tourism Geographies, Tourism Recreation Research, and Tourist
Studies.
Hannah Brown is a solicitor specializing in animal advocacy and litigation. She
is the Legal and Project Manager for the Association of Lawyers for Animal
Welfare (a UK-based organization of lawyers working for the benefit of the
animal protection community) and leads a number of projects seeking to better
animal protection law through legislative and judicial engagement. Hannah also
lectures internationally on the legal status of animals and animal protection
law.
Janna Caspersen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Geography at the University of Tennessee, after having received an MA in
Geography from East Carolina University and a BA in Geography from the University
of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Her interests include sustainable tourism, memory
studies, civil rights, social justice, qualitative geographic information
systems, and social media’s role within the geographies of memory.
Christina T. Cavaliere is an environmental social scientist and
international sustainable development specialist focused on linking tourism and
bio-cultural conservation. She currently serves
as an Assistant Professor within the programs of Hospitality and Tourism
Management and Sustainability at Stockton University. Her research interests
include tourism and climate change, local economies, sustainable agriculture
and ecogastronomy, permaculture, agritourism, critical thinking for
sustainability, and community re-development. Christina earned a PhD from the
University of Otago in New Zealand. She has designed and implemented numerous
international field trainings, conservation, and research projects and has
published in several A-ranked journals.
Erik Cohen is the George S. Wise Professor of Sociology (emeritus) at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has conducted research in Israel, Peru, the
Pacific islands, and, since 1977, Thailand. He has published more than 200
publications on a wide range of topics. His recent work focused on the
sociological theory of tourism, space tourism, ethnic tourism in Southeast
Asia, and animals in tourism. Cohen is a founding member of the International
Academy for the Study of Tourism and the recipient of the UN World Tourism
Organization’s Ulysses Prize for 2012.
Níels Einarsson is an anthropologist and Director of the
Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland. His main professional
interests include the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of marine
resource governance; climate change, whale watching, and whaling in Iceland,
and North Atlantic Arctic sustainability and social change issues. He has led
and participated in numerous international research and scientific assessment
projects with a focus on the circumpolar region, including co-editing the first
Arctic Human Development Report, and as co–principal investigator on the
current ARCPATH (www.ncoe-arcpath.org) and GREENICE (https://greenice.b.uib.no/) projects, with the primary goal of investigating
environmental and social change in Arctic coastal communities.
Bryan Grimwood is Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure
Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research analyzes human–nature
relationships and advocates social justice and sustainability in contexts of
tourism, leisure, and livelihoods. Trained as a human geographer and engaged
scholar, Bryan specializes in tourism and Indigenous Peoples, tourism ethics
and responsibility, northern landscapes, and outdoor experiential education.
His research is informed theoretically by relational perspectives of nature and
morality and draws on diverse qualitative methodologies and principles of
community-based and participatory research. Since joining UWaterloo as a
faculty member in 2011, Bryan has grounded his research in settings ranging
from Arctic communities and protected areas to urban outdoor programs and green
spaces.
Edward H. Huijbens is a geographer, scholar of tourism, and
professor at the school of business and science, University of Akureyri. Edward
works on tourism theory, innovation, landscape perceptions, marketing
strategies, health and wellbeing, and polar tourism. Edward is the author of
articles in several scholarly journals in both
Iceland and internationally and has co-edited Technology in
Society/Society in Technology (2005, University of Iceland
Press), Sensi/able Spaces: Space, Art and the Environment (2007,
Cambridge Scholars Press), The Illuminating Traveller (2008,
University of Jyväskylä), Tourism and the Anthropocene (2016,
Routledge) and Icelandic Tourism (Forlagið, 2013).
Rebecca Jenkins holds an LL.B Degree from Trinity College Dublin
School of Law and an LL.M Degree from Lewis & Clark Law School. Rebecca is
the first Aquatic Animal Law Initiative Fellow at the Center for Animal Law
Studies at Lewis & Clark Law School. Rebecca has been published in Lewis
& Clark’s Animal Law Journal and has presented at the Oxford Center for Animal
Ethics’ Summer School. Rebecca’s research interests include food law and
policy, critical race and gender studies, intersectional approaches to animal
law, and aquatic animal law.
Adam Keul serves as the director of the program in Tourism Management and
Policy at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. He is trained
as a human geographer and his research focuses on the production of tourism
spaces at the confluence of land and water. He has written about tourism and
geography covering a variety of topics, including animals and tourism, tourism
in wetlands, the politics of coastal access, and resource development in the
globalized Arctic. Throughout his research, Keul applies critical theories
addressing political economies and ecologies.
Yoko Kito is Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology at the National
Institute of Technology Nagano College (Japan). Her research is mainly in the
area of the thought of Paul Tillich, the thought of the Kyoto school, political
philosophy, animal ethics, and Christian ethics. Her publications include Animal
Ethics and Feminism in Japan, Time and Space in the Thought of Paul Tillich:
The Relation of Ontology and History, Keiji Nishitani and Paul Tillich: About
History as Kū and History as Kairos, Friedlaender und Tillich: Zur
Interpretation von Kants Religionsphilosophie, and The Concept of
Transcendence in Charles Taylor: Religion and the Political.
Carol Kline is an Associate Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management at
Appalachian State University in the Department of Management. Her research
interests focus broadly on tourism planning and development and tourism
sustainability but cover a range of topics such as foodie segmentation, craft
beverages, agritourism, wildlife-based tourism, animal ethics in tourism,
tourism entrepreneurship, niche tourism markets, and tourism impacts to
communities.
Elise Mognard is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism at Taylor’s University (Malaysia).
After receiving her PhD in sociology from Université de Toulouse, CERTOP-CNRS
(Toulouse, France) – of which she still is an associate member – she joined
Taylor’s University (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and is involved in the
International Associated Laboratory (LIA) “Food Studies: Food, Cultures and Health.” Her research focuses broadly on the
socio-anthropology of food. More specifically, she is interested in the
regulation of the relations between humans and animals in food, food
controversies and ethics, and cosmopolitan food socialization.
Rob Todd Perdue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology at Appalachian State University and a faculty affiliate with the
Center for Appalachian Studies at the same institution. He received his PhD
from the University of Florida. He teaches courses on Environmental Sociology,
Social Inequality, Sociological Theory, and Peace Studies. His research centers
on environmental inequality, with the goal of highlighting how topics that have
traditionally fallen outside the purview of environmental social scientists are
in need of sustained engagement. As such, he has published research that
connects topics as diverse as breastfeeding, artificial intelligence, and strip
coal mining to environmental and social inequality. His current work attempts
to link environmental and criminal justice by examining the ecological impacts
of mass incarceration in the United States.
José Prada-Trigo works as Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Architecture, Urbanism, and Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile.
He holds a PhD in Geography and Tourism and has participated in different
national and international research projects. He has won some research grants
and prizes and has published several books and papers about city, territory,
and tourism. At present, he is conducting two projects about tourist
motivations and immaterial cultural heritage, tourists, and territory.
Marina Rosales Benites de Franco is a Professor at Federico Villarreal National
University, Lima. She is a member of the International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN) Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy Theme
on Environment, Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment, the IUCN World
Commission on Protected Areas and the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management.
She is a Doctor on Environment and Sustainable Development, and an expert on
conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems services.
Benedict E. Singleton is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish
Biodiversity Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He has
recently begun a project examining how the embodied experiences of nature feed
into the social construction of biodiversity, utilizing the case of marine
mammal science. In December 2016, he defended his PhD thesis in environmental
sociology entitled “From the Sea to the Land Beyond: Exploring Plural
Perspectives on Whaling.” He first became interested in the global whaling
debate as a social anthropology undergraduate at Queen’s University Belfast. An
experienced researcher, he has carried out fieldwork in settings as diverse as
Zambia, Jamaica, the UK, Belgium, and Malta. Falling within the broad field of
political ecology, he has diverse research interests on the theory of socio-cultural viability; science, technology, and
society studies; and international development.
Rachael Viscidy is an undergraduate student at Stockton
University in the Hospitality and Tourism Management Studies program. Her
interests include culinary arts, community development, local foods, and
international relations. She has experience in the food and beverage industry
and in non-governmental organization event management. Rachael plans to
continue to study sustainable tourism and would like to pursue a career in
international development.
Tao Zhou is a PhD student studying tourism in the Department of Recreation
and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research applies
the theory of post-colonialism to tourism study, specifically in the region of
Tibet. In particular, his research studies how Tibetans are marginalized and
silenced in tourism development. Another research interest is to examine the
representation of Indigenous culture within the policy and planning landscape
of Indigenous tourism in Canada.
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