Animal Edutainment in a Neoliberal Era - Politics, Pedagogy, and Practice in the Contemporary Aquarium (Hardcover, New edition)

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, Teresa Lloro 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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	[Re]thinking Environmental Education, 15
Release date:	April 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Teresa Lloro
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	170
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-4721-0
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General
LSN:	1-4331-4721-1
Barcode:	9781433147210

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