The slow road to sustainable tourism

An interspecies perspective on decent work

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21603643
AutoresHelen Wadham (0000-0002-9980-4409, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, Manchester, UK, autor de correspondencia), Katherine Dashper (0000-0002-2415-2290, Leeds Beckett University)
Año2024
Páginas1-16
Fecha de publicación2024-07-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Sustainable Tourism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0966-9582 • E-ISSN: 1747-7646
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09669582.2024.2374361
OpenAlexW4400607978
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas62

Existing understandings of decent work—and the wider 2030 Agenda—are profoundly anthropocentric. This paper explores how focusing on interspecies relations subverts our ideas about decent work and its implications for more sustainable approaches to tourism. Specifically, we bring insights from slow philosophy to bear on fieldwork focused on the shared labour of people and horses involved in forestry and trekking in the UK. Horses emerge as co-workers and epistemological partners, shaping the ways we think about and experience decent work and unsettling people’s ideas about space, place and time. The rhythms and needs of these animal workers challenge apparently unassailable characteristics of contemporary working life, enabling us to develop a less human-centred and more energising imaginary for the future

Anthropocentrism · Environmental ethics · Political science · Sociology · Sustainable tourism · The Imaginary · Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology