Hunting the Exotic

Practices, Discourses, and Narratives of Hunting in New Zealand

Bibliographic Data

ID12419081
AuthorsArianne Reis (0000-0002-1630-8857, Southern Cross University, corresponding author), Arianne Carvalhedo Reis (School of Tourism & Hospitality Management, Southern Cross UniversityCoffs HarbourAustralia)
Year2014
Volume22
Issue3
Pages289-308
Publication date2014-04-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociety and Animals (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15685306-12341333
OpenAlexW1972690602
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This paper makes a contribution to nonhuman animal studies by discussing the tensions in practices, discourses, and narratives of hunting in a settler postcolonial society. It aims to present a discussion of how the imperialist construct of the “exotic” is applied to nonhuman animals. The focus of the paper is on the different roles the exotic animal status plays in the hunting experience in New Zealand, and how other agencies also play a part in the construction of the hunting discourses and personal narratives in relation to the exotic animal. The paper concludes that the exotic concept is closely linked to a celebration of New Zealand’s distinctiveness from their colonizer. Always a process of “Othering,” the exotic status not only impinges on the relationship established with the nonhuman animal prey, but also leads to an inconsistent discourse that implies a speciesist position, one which is nonetheless consistent with a dominionist performance

Construct (python library · Environmental ethics · Narrative · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation