Japanese low-consumptive wildlife tourism: meaning and morality in hybrid online-offline spaces

日本低消费野生动物旅游：线上线下混合空间的意义和道德

• 批准号: 21F20797
• 负责人: Edelheim Johan
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: Hokkaido University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2021-07-28 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21F20797/
• 关键词: tourism; zoo; wildlife; red fox; cute; commodification; multispecies; ethnography

The research explores how wildlife tourism in Japan is responding to increasing consumer pressure for close, embodied encounters with captive animals. Through a multi-sited, multispecies ethnography of Ezo red foxes at five zoos, the research analysed commodified ‘fox hugs’ and feeding encounters that satisfy tourists’ desires for wildlife selfies, feelings of iyashi and social capital. These practices have raised animal welfare concerns among some tourists and observations of the foxes’ behaviour indicate that these concerns may be justified. The research concludes that more ethical iyashi experiences can be derived from captive wildlife viewing at close proximity in which the animals are not subjected to forced physical contact with tourists or made to compete for food.

这项研究探讨了日本的野生动物旅游业如何应对消费者对近距离接触圈养动物的压力。通过对五个动物园的Ezo赤狐进行多地点、多物种的民族志研究，该研究分析了商品化的“狐狸拥抱”和喂养遭遇，这些遭遇满足了游客对野生动物自拍、宫志和社会资本的渴望。这些做法引起了一些游客对动物福利的担忧，对狐狸行为的观察表明，这些担忧可能是有道理的。该研究得出结论，更符合伦理道德的宫式体验可以从近距离观看圈养野生动物中获得，在这种情况下，动物不会被迫与游客进行身体接触，也不会被迫争夺食物。

项目成果

Global Tourism and COVID-19: Implications for Theory and Practice (Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19, pp. 82-92).

全球旅游和 COVID-19：理论与实践的启示（生态悲伤在 COVID-19 后引发了旅游业环境治愈的愿望，第 82-92 页）。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Crossley;Emilie
• 通讯作者: Emilie

Wildlife touching untouched by COVID-19: The case of ‘fox hugs’ in Japan

未受 COVID-19 影响的野生动物接触：日本“狐狸拥抱”案例

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Crossley;Emilie
• 通讯作者: Emilie

Professional practice review of learning. In J. R. Edelheim, M. Joppe & J. Flaherty (Eds.). Teaching tourism: Innovative, values-based learning experiences for transformative practices (pp. 286-288)

专业实践复习学习。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Crossley;Emilie
• 通讯作者: Emilie

Rethinking animal tourism: A multispecies research approach

重新思考动物旅游：多物种研究方法

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Crossley;Emilie
• 通讯作者: Emilie

Naming Ezo red foxes in Japanese zoos: The ethics of constructing animal personhood

日本动物园中虾夷红狐的命名：构建动物人格的伦理

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Crossley;Emilie
• 通讯作者: Emilie