Living with mosquitoes

Anu Valtonen, Tarja Salmela and Outi Rantala

Annals of Tourism Research, 2020, vol. 83, issue C

Abstract: This paper joins the debate on multispecies encounters in tourism by focusing on a hitherto overlooked animal: the mosquito. Drawing from feminist new materialist literature, it works towards a post-anthropocentric approach to exploring the narratives performed around the mosquito–tourist encounter and to casting a transformative narrative – living with mosquitoes – that recognises tourists and mosquitoes as fellow travellers. We use a memory-work method to generate our empirical materials, complemented by media materials. Our analysis details, via two thematised stories, the trans-corporeal nature of the mosquito–tourist encounter and the complexity of ethical relations – discussed in terms of violence and care – involved in it. The study enriches understanding of multispecies encounters and multispecies ethics in tourism.

Keywords: Multispecies encounters; Mosquitoes; New materialism; Narrative; Ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.102945

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