Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.

Autor/in	Lloro, Teresa
Institution	Peter Lang Publishing
Titel	Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.
Quelle	New York: Peter Lang Publishing (2021), XVIII, 169 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	(Re)thinking environmental education. 15
Beigaben	Illustrationen; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISSN	1949-0747
ISBN	9781433147210 (gebundene Ausgabe); 9781433174148 (E-Book); 9781433174155 (EPUB); 9781433174162
Schlagwörter	California; USA; Aquarium of the Pacific; Environmental education; Political ecology; Marine resources conservation; Quelle; Environmental protection; Citizen participation; Bildungstheorie; Bildungspraxis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kalifornien; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Politische Ökologie; Umweltschutz; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung
Abstract	Foreword / (Lori Gruen) -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Making of a Regional Edutainment Venue -- Chapter 3: Neoliberal Subjectivities and the Pedagogy of "Sustainable Seafood" -- Chapter 4: Bird Biopower in Lorikeet Forest -- Chapter 5: The Disembodied Shark -- Chapter 6: Affective Labor in the Lorikeet Forest -- Chapter 7: A Watershed Moment for Zoos and Aquariums? Exploring Feminist Posthumanist Theories and Pedagogies. "Animal Edutainment in a Neoliberal Era is a rich and beautifully written multispecies ethnographic monograph that explores pedagogy and practice at a Southern California aquarium housing and displaying over 10,000 animals. Drawing on extensive interviews with aquarium staff and visitors, as well as fieldwork interacting with and observing human-animal interactions, the book demonstrates the complex ways in which aquarium animals are politically deployed in teaching and learning processes. Weaving together insights from anthropology, critical geography, environmental education, and political ecology, Lloro-Bidart crafts a three-pronged "political ecology of education lens," illuminating how neoliberal ideologies interact at various scales (local, regional, national, and global) to deeply shape aquarium decision-making and practice. Acknowledging that neoliberalism enrolls humans and other animals in teaching and learning in new and often poorly understood ways, this study challenges the anthropocentrism of contemporary informal educational approaches, suggesting that imaginative ways forward will require a paradigm shift in regarding the role of animals in education"--Provided by publisher.
Erfasst von	Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Update	2021/4/10