New Moral Natures in Tourism

This book explores the multitude of ways that ''nature' is constructed, evaluated, and performed through tourism, and the consequences that these different natures have on peoples and places. The book explores the types of 'moralities' that have entered into tourism, including environmental consciousness and animal ethics. It provides an understanding of the ethical opportunities and challenges of the human relationship with nature in tourism.

Bryan S. R. Grimwood is Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research analyzes human-nature relationships and advocates social justice and sustainability in contexts of tourism, leisure, and livelihoods. Kellee Caton is Associate Professor of Tourism Studies at Thompson Rivers University and co-chair of the Critical Tourism Studies international network. Her work explores how we come to know tourism as a sociocultural phenomenon, and how we come to know and reshape the world through tourism. Lisa Cooke is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Thompson Rivers University. Her research and teaching focus on Indigenous-Settler relations in the territory now most dominantly known as Canada and the ways that contemporary settler colonial cultural forms work to reconstitute particular relations of domination and dispossession.

Introduction: Tourism, nature, morality (Bryan S. R. Grimwood, Kellee Caton, and Lisa Cooke) 1 We will present ourselves in our ways: Indigenous Australian Tourism (Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Skye Akbar) 2 Windshields, wilderness, and Walmart: Cultural logics of the frontier in Yukon, Canada (Lisa Cooke) 3 Anachronistic others and embedded dangers: Race and the logic of whiteness in nature tourism (Bruce Erickson) 4 Rock climbing and the "good life": Cultivating an ethics of lifestyle mobilities (Jillian M. Rickly) 5 Dogs will be destroyed: Moral agency, the nonhuman animal, and the tourist (Arianne Reis and Eric J. Shelton) 6 Vegetarian ecofeminism in tourism: Emerging tourism practices by institutional entrepreneurs (Giovanna Bertella) 7 Between awareness and activism: Navigating the ethical terrain of eating animals (Carol Kline and R. Cody Rusher) 8 Tourist desires and animal rights and welfare within tourism: A question of obligations (Neil Carr) 9 Feral tourism (Adrian Franklin and Thomas Colas) 10 Toward a participatory ecological ethic for outdoor activities: Reconsidering traces (Philip M. Mullins) 11 The Anthropocene: The eventual geo-logics of posthuman tourism (Mick Smith) 12 Indigenous methodologies revisited: Métissage, hybridity, and the Third Space in environmental studies (Gregory Lowan-Trudeau) Conclusion: In the forest (Kellee Caton) Afterword by Soile Veijola Index