Abstract

LOPEZ LOPEZ, Álvaro  and  QUINTERO VENEGAS, Gino Jafet. The Intersections of Tourism Geography and Animal Geography within the Field of Post-humanist Ethics. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2021, vol.30, n.1, pp.86-105.  Epub Mar 01, 2021. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v30n1.82631.

In contemporary academic thought, tourism geography and animal geography find themselves intersected by post-humanist ethics -i.e., the philosophical consideration of the equality between human and non-human animals-. Based on a methodology of discourse analysis, this article focuses on the revelations by post-humanist animal geography that the commodification of non-human animals pervades the entire tourism space/system in all its complex relationships, from the point of origin to the point of destination, and the transit between the two, as studied by tourism geography. Despite the growing recognition of the need of fair treatment of other animals, our research indicates that slavery is persistent. At the point of origin, animal representations provide the raw material for imaginary tourism constructs that encourage the exploitation of other animals; in the space of transit, concern for the welfare of the companion animals is in sheer contrast with the exploitation of draught animals; finally, at the point of destination, non-human animals are observed, eaten, physically abused, and subject to many other forms of exploitation, in order to satisfy the appetites of visitors.

Highlights: research article based upon post-humanist ethics that intersects the tourism geography with animal geography of the third and fourth waves; as a result, it has been evident that is an unethical practice.

Keywords : post-humanist ethics; animal geography; tourism geography; tourism system; zoo-slavery.

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