ISBN:
1138209279
,
9781138209275
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 228 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge ethics of tourism 4
Series Statement:
Routledge ethics of tourism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Domestic animals, humans, and leisure
DDC:
306.4/812
Keywords:
Human-animal relationships
;
Domestic animals
;
Human behavior
;
Leisure
;
Tourism Moral and ethical aspects
;
Animal welfare
Abstract:
"Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of humans. The interplay of human and animal experiences of justice, wellbeing, rights, and roles within leisure is the central theme of this book. Research explores the position of domesticated animals in human leisure experiences, in a wide array of leisure settings. Chapters question whether domestic animals may have a desire for leisure that is different from human leisure, whether animals have and wish to fulfil needs for meaningful leisure or non-leisure, and whether human leisure needs and desires may coincide or contradict wellbeing interests of animals. This book provides a venue for the dissemination and exploration of research, which champions the welfare and rights of these animals to have their needs and interests in leisure recognised. It moves the debate about animals in leisure beyond the current limits which have seen research mainly confined to the exotic 'other' rather than more mundane, everyday domestic animals. This book will be of interest to individuals in the fields of tourism ethics, zoology, animal behaviour, and leisure studies"--Preliminaries
Abstract:
Introduction -- Behind bars: contradictions in the expectations and experiences of life with marginalised companion animals -- Dog shows as casual leisure: asymmetry of human and animal experience -- Dog showing and training: enjoyable hobbies or destructive practices that reinforce speciesist ideologies? -- Off-leash recreation in an urban national recreation area: conflict between domesticated dogs, wildlife and semi-domesticated humans -- Walking the dog--chore or leisure? -- Recentring companion species wellbeing in the leisure experience: towards multispecies flourishing through dog walking -- Domesticated dogs and 'doings' during the holidays -- From labour to leisure: the relocation of animals in modern Western society -- Post-humanistic insight into human-equine interactions and wellbeing within leisure and tourism -- Pampered prisoners: meeting the ethological needs of the modern sport horse to enhanced equine welfare -- Human-initiated animal fights -- Domestic animals' leisure, rights, wellbeing: nuancing 'domestic', asymmetries and into the future
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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