Human-Animal Relations in Tourism, Leisure and Development

Perspectives from Latin America
A presentation of human-animal relationships in the fields of tourism, leisure and local development in Latin America. Via multi-disciplinary theory, methodology, empirical and ethical approaches, it presents relationships from co-created interspecies experiences, welfare and conservation to conflicting interactions for both humans and animals.
Humans and animals have developed multiple and complex interactions in the fields of tourism, leisure, and development. However, much of the existing research on how humans and animals interact in these fields has emerged from within the context of developed countries. As a result, little has been documented about human-animal interactions in the socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental contexts of countries in the Global South. Specifically, the diversity and complexity of interspecies relationships in tourism, leisure, and local development in Latin America have been largely ignored in Anglo-Saxon literature. This has resulted in a limited, partial, and hegemonic understanding and debate about human-animal relationships globally, dominated by certain regions of the world. This book addresses this gap by documenting multiple and complex relationships between humans and animals in the fields of tourism, leisure, and local development in countries in Latin America. The book: Brings together empirical and conceptual works that reveal different disciplinary, theoretical, ethical, methodological, and practical perspectives. Reveals how human-animal relationships - both domestic and wild - can result in co-created interspecies experiences, conflicts, conservation efforts, welfare, and local development of human societies in the region. Equips stakeholders with conceptual frameworks and actionable tools to formulate policies that blend animal welfare and sustainability in Latin American tourism and recreation strategies. Challenges dominant narratives from the Global North regarding tourism and conservation, promoting a more inclusive and nuanced approach. This book will be of interest to researchers, professionals and policymakers within tourism, leisure, animal welfare, conservation and destination development.

Contributor: Carlos Monterrubio (Edited by), Xavier López-Medellín (Edited by), Katherine Dashper (Edited by), Helen Wadham (Edited by), Natalia Balzaretti Merino (Contributions by), S. Pelayo Benavides (Contributions by), Myrna Leticia Bravo Olivas (Contributions by), Ludger Brenner (Contributions by), Ivonne Cassaigne (Contributions by), Rosa Maria Chávez-Dagostino (Contributions by), Katherine Dashper (Contributions by), J. Antonio de la Torre (Contributions by), Marcos Díaz Videla (Contributions by), Yancen Diemberger (Contributions by), Iyari Janethzy Espinoza-Rodríguez (Contributions by), Luisa Amador Fanaro (Contributions by), Claudia Galicia-Castillo (Contributions by), Mariela García-Sánchez (Contributions by), Siavash Ghoddousi (Contributions by), Lara Ailton (Contributions by), Xavier López-Medellín (Contributions by), Ezequiel Lovera Rojas (Contributions by), Octavio Iván Martínez Vaca-León (Contributions by), Rodrigo A. Medellin (Contributions by), Alberto Mellado (Contributions by), Carlos Monterrubio (Contributions by), Ricardo Adrián Ojeda-Adame (Contributions by), Edi Alves de Oliveira Neto (Contributions by), David Ricardo Ortiz-Ramírez (Contributions by), Andrés Ried (Contributions by), Bernal Rodríguez Herrera (Contributions by), Valeria Berenice Salinas-Ramos, (Contributions by), Natalie T Schmitt (Contributions by), Helen Wadham (Contributions by), Alinka Vanessa Olea y Wagner (Contributions by)

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