Living with mosquitoes

This paper joins the debate on multispecies encounters in tourism by focusing on a hitherto overlooked animal: the mosquito. Drawing from feminist new materialist literature, it works towards a post-anthropocentric approach to exploring the narratives performed around the mosquito–tourist encounter...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of tourism research 2020-07, Vol.83, p.102945, Article 102945
Hauptverfasser: Valtonen, Anu, Salmela, Tarja, Rantala, Outi
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper joins the debate on multispecies encounters in tourism by focusing on a hitherto overlooked animal: the mosquito. Drawing from feminist new materialist literature, it works towards a post-anthropocentric approach to exploring the narratives performed around the mosquito–tourist encounter and to casting a transformative narrative – living with mosquitoes – that recognises tourists and mosquitoes as fellow travellers. We use a memory-work method to generate our empirical materials, complemented by media materials. Our analysis details, via two thematised stories, the trans-corporeal nature of the mosquito–tourist encounter and the complexity of ethical relations – discussed in terms of violence and care – involved in it. The study enriches understanding of multispecies encounters and multispecies ethics in tourism. •Introduces mosquitoes to the study of multispecies encounters in tourism.•Offers a post-anthropocentric view on ethics in a more-than-human world.•Suggests common worlding with earthly creatures as the focus of tourism narration.
ISSN:0160-7383
1873-7722
DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2020.102945