The past, present, and future of underwater spaces: From tourist experiences to the possibility of habitation

P Vannini - Geography Compass, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews contemporary geography literature pertaining to the development and
experience of underwater spaces. Examining the underwater world as a space of practices …

From heterotopia to alloútopia: more-than-human geographies of Singapore's underwater Equarius Hotel

P Vannini, AS Vannini - cultural geographies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
There are eight underwater hotels in the world. Drawing from our on-site observations and
reflections, in this paper we discuss how one of them, Singapore's Equarius Hotel, may at …

Plantness, Animalness, and Humanness: plant placement within animacy and adjacent scales

FC Lubbe, KG Castillo Alfonzo - Journal for the Theory of Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animacy is an important framework through which humans view and categorize the world,
but many objects do not easily fit within this scale. Plants are unique because they are very …

More-than-food tourism

A de Jong, P Varley, C Steadman, D Medway… - Tourist …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Food tourism researchers are increasingly seeking to question why tourists eat animals, and
the ethical dimensions of such encounters. The tourist experience has largely been taken as …

Critical policy studies in dialogue with multispecies perspectives: should it become a more-than-human endeavor?

S van Bommel - Critical Policy Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This forum contribution aims to start a conversation about how multispecies perspectives
can broaden the scope of critical policy studies. By addressing three key questions–who …

Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities

P Alexiou, J Brekl, E Köhler… - Anthropology Southern …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Multispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen
a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the humanities and social sciences …

Deconstructing Wasp Aggression: Proposing a Critically Anthropomorphic Narrative of Shared Vulnerability

M Santaoja - Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks, 2024 - brill.com
Wasps1 are generally perceived as aggressive, annoying, or even evil insects. Media is in a
key position in creating multispecies narratives, representing various nonhuman species …

Stories of human exceptionalism: writing through the impasse between care and domination: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree …

N Ashley - 2023 - mro.massey.ac.nz
The coalescing socio-political and environmental crises characterising the epoch of the
Anthropocene raise fundamental questions about what it means to be human. Underpinning …

[HTML][HTML] Ignored in sight, out of mind: Human perception of plants

C Lubbe - communities.springernature.com
Although common and important parts of our lives, plants often go unnoticed and
unappreciated. Overlooking plants begins within our minds with the ways that we recognize …