| If Descartes Swam With Dolphins : The Framing And Consumption Of Marine Animals In Contemporary Australian Tourism (2000) | |||||||||
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| Cultural geography has become increasingly interested in the ways in which nature is socially constructed within society as other. In more closely examining the broad category of "nature", the field of animal geography has come about in an attempt to rethink the place of animals in society. The Cartesian culture/nature binary is seen to be one reason for the mistreatment of animals in society. The thesis investigates to what extent the binary is challenged or reinforced through the act of visiting animals within an ecotourism context. To this end the thesis looks at the ways in which marine animals are produced for and consumed by the tourism industry in Australia. Set within a backdrop of the early collection and display of marine animals as a form of imperial expansion, the thesis travels across a spectrum of marine animal tourism experience, from a point of extreme mediation to one of minimum mediation. [more ] | |||||||||
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