11 Monkey see, monkey do: The work of primates in Costa Rican sanctuaries

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 Introduction: Working for the (hu)man in the tourism industry 1
5. Part 1: Theoretical considerations
6. 2 Conceptualizing non-human animals as “workers” within the tourism industry 21
7. 3 Redefining the work of working animals in the tourism industry: An animal-centric reflection 37
8. Part 2: Performative work
9. 4 Working donkeys in northwestern Mexico: Urban identity and tourism resources 53
10. 5 Animal dark tourism in Mexico: Bulls performing their own slaughter 69
11. 6 Farm animals’ participation in tourism experiences: A time for proper respect 83
12. Part 3: Value-added work
13. 7 Animals as tourism stakeholders: Huskies, reindeer, and horses working in Lapland 103
14. 8 Distributed leadership in tourism experiences: Russian sled dogs and Icelandic horses leading the way 123
15. 9 A working holiday: From home to destination with a guide dog 143
16. 10 The donkeys of Santorini: Workers or slaves? 159
17. 11 Monkey see, monkey do: The work of primates in Costa Rican sanctuaries 181
18. 12 The greening of polar bears: Lively commodities in a climate change economy 207
19. 13 “Cute, but get up and work!”: The biophilia hypothesis in tourists’ linguistic interactions with pandas 225
20. Part 5: Reflections
21. 14 Working animal research: An agenda for the future 245
22. 15 Afterword: On tourism, animals, and suffering – lessons from Aeschylus’ Oresteia 255
23. List of contributors 263
24. List of figures 269
25. Index 271