Living with mosquitoes

Valtonen, Anu; Salmela, Tarja; Rantala, Outi

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2020.102945

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“…There is a need to find a better balance in how all habitants of the earth are included in theory making, and involved in theoretical narration. A recent study of mosquitoes in the context of tourism provides a case in point [14]. Drawing from feminist new material literature, the authors suggest a post-anthropocentric approach that casts mosquitoes as fellow travelers, with which we are to live with-no matter whether we like it or not.…”

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Time and Mobility after the Anthropocene

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The Special Issue on ‘After the Anthropocene: Time and Mobility’ is published. It discusses the geological time to follow the human-dominated epoch and ways to move there. In addition to this editorial, a total of five articles are published in the issue. The articles engage with a variety of social science disciplines—ranging from economics and sociology to philosophy and political science—and connect to the natural science insights on the Anthropocene. The issue calls for going beyond anthropocentrism in sustainability theory and practice in order to exit the Anthropocene with applications and insights in the contexts of politics (Ruuska et al., 2020), energy (Mohorčich, 2020), tourism (Rantala et al., 2020), food (Mazac and Tuomisto, 2020) and management (Küpers, 2020). We hope that you will find this Special Issue interesting and helpful in contributing to sustainable change.

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“…A telling example of such a way to re-affect tourism is exemplified by Kugapi and Höckert (2020) where a story of mittens as souvenir tells of the intensive entanglements of people, souvenirs and places. Similarly, Valtonen et al (2020) offer a post-anthropocentric narrative of multispecies encounters in tourism. Examples such as these challenge an objectified and dis-affected generation of tourism realities as purely social.…”

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(Staying with) the trouble with tourism and travel theory?

Ren

2021

Tourist Studies

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It has now been 20 years since Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s The trouble with tourism and travel theory? introduced the first volume of Tourist Studies. In the year of 2001, business-oriented approaches to studying tourism were thriving due to the rapid growth of tourism. In their diagnosis of tourism research of the day, Franklin and Crang pointed to the lack of theory and “a tendency for studies to follow a template, repeating and reinforcing a specific approach” (p. 6) as the fundamental trouble with the academic commitment to tourism. The twentieth anniversary issue of Tourist Studies offers an occasion to return to this analysis of tourism research and explore what the “trouble” with knowing and thinking about tourism might be today? Where do we go, where do we look, and whom do we listen to and learn from to know about tourism? And how may we work to improve our sensibilities toward knowing tourism?

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“…'We are and we are not the same', Sayers (2017: 166) suggests. Our encounters with different animal bodies bring ethics to the fore (Valtonen et al, 2020). In his Oscars speech in February of 2020, Joaquin Phoenix used his voice for the 'voiceless' and vulnerable cow, a production animal that many humans rarely consider in their daily lives.…”

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“…I approach my dogs as 'fellow creatures' (Valtonen et al, 2020) with whom I think, write and undertake research. Nevertheless, 'choosing animals to write with might be seen as perverse', as Sayers (2017: 167) aptly reminds us.…”

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Writing with the bitches

Huopalainen

2020

Organization

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Could the everyday affective relationships that we share with our animal companions inspire us to think, write and even care ‘differently’ in the field of organisation studies? In this paper, I suggest that organisational scholars have plenty to learn from post-qualitative writing and the posthumanist practice of feminist dog-writing. Drawing from literature on posthumanism, humanimal relations and post-qualitative methodology, I first frame feminist dog-writing as a practice that relies on post-qualitative writing and discuss what this framing potentially involves, in concrete terms. Second, I experiment with ‘writing with the bitches’ to illustrate how this kind of writing ‘differently’ – in ways in which the entangled co-becoming of the humanimal is highlighted in its multiplicity – could contribute to discussions of humanimal relations in the field of organisation studies and more disruptive, post-qualitative forms of writing in our scholarly field. Despite the many challenges of anthropocentric language and representation, I argue that feminist dog-writing has the capability to creatively confuse, disrupt, and transform more ‘conventional’, mechanical, and hu man-centred forms of academic writing. Finally, I suggest that feminist dog-writing invites human animals to engage differently with the sensate, more-than-human life-worlds that human-centred accounts of organisational life have typically sentimentalised, trivialised, or overlooked.

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Living with mosquitoes

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Cited by 40 publications

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Time and Mobility after the Anthropocene

(Staying with) the trouble with tourism and travel theory?

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