Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce publication of the following paper:
Taylor, C. S. & Carter, J. (2013) The agency of dolphins: toward interspecies
embassies as sites of engagement with 'significant otherness'. Geographical
Research, 51, 1 1-10.
The abstract appears below. Please contact me ([email protected]), if
you would like a copy of the PDF.
Cetacean–human interaction, at sites where free-ranging dolphins approach
humans, is occurring more than ever before. Management policies and strategies,
and their underlying research, intended to protect both dolphins and humans
during these interactive events, affect the quality and nature of
interactivity. The agency of the dolphins, and its representation in management
schemes, is analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis of selected texts from
the discourse of Dolphin–Human Interaction Management (DHIM). Analysis suggests
a prevailing discourse of protectionism but also reveals the possibility for a
new kind of management scheme based upon an acceptance of the ‘significant
otherness’ of non-human species. This can be achieved by means of inter-species
etiquette, acknowledging the choices made by non-humans to interact with
humans. An inter-species etiquette, coupled with multi-species education
(education across species boundaries, designed and delivered so as to enable
mutually beneficial interaction), offers those non-human animals widely
referred to as ‘ambassadors’ safe places in which to be encountered. This new
form of inter-species interaction space is named an ‘embassy’.
Sincerely,
C. Scott Taylor BSocSc (Hon)
PhD candidate
University of the Sunshine Coast
Australia
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