Unknown Pleasures

“The importance of animals in nature-society relations rest in their own right both as a natural other and as a metonym for the rest of nature’s ‘other’. As such, the relational assemblages involving humans and animals have changed markedly over the years as animals have concomitantly been increasingly marginalized or commodified… in this ecotouristic context, particular assemblages of performance – clearly and purposefully mediated by tourist operators – can emerge to affect a rapidly changing coconstitution of place.”