ABSTRACT

How do we understand human-nature relationships in tourism, or determine the consequences of these relationships to be "good," "bad," "right," "wrong," "fair," or "just"? What theoretical and philosophical perspectives can usefully orient us in the production and consumption of tourism towards living and enacting the "good life" with the more-than-human world?

This book addresses such questions by investigating relationships between nature and morality in tourism contexts. Recognizing that morality, much like nature, is embedded in histories and landscapes of power, the book engages with diverse theoretical and philosophical perspectives to critically review, appraise, and advance dialogue on the moral dimensions of natures. Contributing authors explore the very foundations of how we make sense of nature in tourism and leisure contexts—and how we might make sense of it differently. 

The book will be essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners grappling with questions about the moral values, frameworks, or practices best suited to mobilizing tourism natures. What will the future of tourism hold in terms of sustainability, justice, resilience, health, and well-being?

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

Tourism, nature, morality

chapter 1|16 pages

We will present ourselves in our ways

Indigenous Australian tourism

chapter 2|14 pages

Windshields, wilderness, and Walmart

Cultural logics of the frontier in Yukon, Canada

chapter 3|14 pages

Anachronistic others and embedded dangers

Race and the logic of whiteness in nature tourism

chapter 4|16 pages

Rock climbing and the “good life”

Cultivating an ethics of lifestyle mobilities

chapter 5|13 pages

Dogs will be destroyed

Moral agency, the nonhuman animal, and the tourist

chapter 6|13 pages

Vegetarian ecofeminism in tourism

Emerging tourism practices by institutional entrepreneurs

chapter 7|17 pages

Between awareness and activism

Navigating the ethical terrain of eating animals

chapter 8|15 pages

Tourist desires and animal rights and welfare within tourism

A question of obligations

chapter 9|18 pages

Feral tourism

chapter 11|16 pages

The Anthropocene

The eventual geo-logics of posthuman tourism

chapter 12|13 pages

Indigenous methodologies revisited

Métissage, hybridity, and the Third Space in environmental studies

chapter 13|12 pages

Conclusion

In the forest

chapter |4 pages

Afterword