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 |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0160-7383 1873-7722 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.annals.2020.102945 |