Neoliberalising Nature? Elephant-Back Tourism in Thailand and Botswana
Neoliberalising Nature? Elephant-Back Tourism in Thailand and Botswana
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00771.x
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发表时间：
2010-06-01
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5
通讯作者：
Moore, Lorraine
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作者：
Duffy, Rosaleen;Moore, Lorraine
本文考察了泰国和博茨瓦纳的大象之旅的案例，认为旅游业通过瞄准和开辟自然界的新领域，扩展和深化了新自由主义。从本质上讲，旅游业重新设计和重新包装自然，以供全球消费。通过在两个非常不同的背景下（泰国和博茨瓦纳）对同一产品（使用圈养/训练的大象）进行交叉比较，本文分析了“实际存在的新自由主义”的变化（Brenner和西奥多，2002年），并证明其影响并非一直是负面的（Castree，2008 b）。它还指出了新自由主义受到特定背景过程的挑战和重塑的方式，因此它不会完全取代现有的接近自然的方式。相反，现有的方法与新自由主义相结合，创造了评估和保护大象的新方法。
This paper examines the case of elephant-back safaris in Thailand and Botswana; it argues that tourism has extended and deepened neoliberalism by targeting and opening up new frontiers in nature. In essence tourism redesigns and repackages nature for global consumption. Through a cross comparison of the same product (the use of captive/trained elephants) in two very different contexts (Thailand and Botswana) this paper analyses the variations in "actually existing neoliberalisms" (Brenner and Theodore 2002) and demonstrates that the effects are not unremittingly negative (Castree 2008b). It also draws out the ways that neoliberalism is challenged and reshaped by context specific processes and so it does not completely displace existing ways of approaching nature. Instead, existing approaches mix with neoliberalism to create new ways of valuing and conserving elephants.