Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F25%3A50022872" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/25:50022872 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14616688.2025.2581193?src=getftr&utm_source=clarivate&getft_integrator=clarivate" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14616688.2025.2581193?src=getftr&utm_source=clarivate&getft_integrator=clarivate</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2025.2581193" target="_blank" >10.1080/14616688.2025.2581193</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography
Original language description
Situated at the intersection of tourism, migration, and human-animal studies, this paper is based on a transspecies ethnographic study of a colony of cats (Felis catus) living on the Costa del Sol, Spain. It emphasises how cats are part of the local community who are impacted by tourism. Focusing on the relationships between residents, visitors, and free-living (unowned) cats inhabiting a popular ‘sun and sea’ style vacation destination, fieldwork documented behaviours and interactions between cats and humans. Drawing upon a concept of interspecies intersubjectivity and co-creation of culture, within a multispecies framework, a qualitative thematic analysis was applied to understand central aspects of cat-human relations and transspecies communities. Namely, (1) the dynamics of a transspecies community situated within a tourist hotspot, (2) relations surrounding feeding and care, and (3) how tourists relate to the colony cats, and vice versa. These findings provide insight into how cats engage with human residents and mostly pro-cat tourists, and vice versa, and how this shapes the social landscape of cats embedded within a community built around tourism. The study highlights how community cat projects are not just about animal welfare and can be framed as a form of social inclusion, caring, and community-building.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Tourism Geographies
ISSN
1461-6688
e-ISSN
1470-1340
Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1700-1718
UT code for WoS article
001609500800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105021330600