Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Tourism Geographies

ISSN

1461-6688

e-ISSN

1470-1340

Svazek periodika

27

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

8

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

1700-1718

Kód UT WoS článku

001609500800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105021330600