Title of Paper
Walking-with a Rainforest: A sensory multispecies ethnography in progress
Abstract (150 Words)
More-than-human research highlights co-dwelling and entanglements that include and extend beyond humans. The methodological approach emphasizes a relational perspective of entanglements when listening to entities historically included in the margins and perceived as dependent on humans. Species is considered a social relation learned through multispecies socialization. Understanding tourism as a more-than-human phenomenon consisting of multispecies socialization requires methodological approaches with nonhuman sensitivities. The current study-in-progress expands on the use of multispecies and sensory ethnographies in tourism using walking-with methodologies in a rainforest in Sri Lanka. A lens consisting of relational multispecies relationships can form alternatives and challenge who is considered a stakeholder in tourism through interspecies sustainability for more just tourism futures.
Walking-with a Rainforest: A sensory multispecies ethnography in progress
More-than-human research highlights co-dwelling and entanglements that include and extend beyond humans. The methodological approach emphasizes a relational perspective of entanglements when listening to entities historically included in the margins and perceived as dependent on humans. Species is considered a social relation learned through multispecies socialization. Understanding tourism as a more-than-human phenomenon consisting of multispecies socialization requires methodological approaches with nonhuman sensitivities. The current study-in-progress expands on the use of multispecies and sensory ethnographies in tourism using walking-with methodologies in a rainforest in Sri Lanka. A lens consisting of relational multispecies relationships can form alternatives and challenge who is considered a stakeholder in tourism through interspecies sustainability for more just tourism futures.