Title of Paper

Walking-with a Rainforest: A sensory multispecies ethnography in progress

Author Bios (50 Words for each Author)

Emma Lundin is a doctoral student in the Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her main research interests include relationships between humans and nonhumans in tourism. Understanding tourism as a multispecies phenomenon, she uses more-than-human approaches to explore interspecies sustainability while learning-with other-than-humans, tourists, and destination residents.

Joelle Soulard is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation, Sport and Tourism Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research agenda aims to understand the roles of travel and leisure experiences in fostering transformation, activism, and resilience. Her interests reside in the desire to create research that is actionable, inclusive, and offers creative solutions to challenges encountered by community members and travelers at destinations.

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.

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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.