Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era : politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium / Teresa Lloro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloro, Teresa, 1977- author.

Contributor:

Peter Lang Publishing.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

(Re)thinking environmental education

(Re)thinking environmental education, 1949-0747 ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aquarium of the Pacific.

Environmental education--California.

Environmental education.

Political ecology.

Marine resources conservation--California.

Marine resources conservation.

Environmental protection--Citizen participation.

Environmental protection.

California.

Physical Description:

xviii, 169 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. The Making Of A Regional Edutainment Venue

3. Neoliberal Subjectivities And The Pedagogy Of "Sustainable Seafood"

4. Bird Biopower In Lorikeet Forest

5. The Disembodied Shark

6. Affective Labor In The Lorikeet Forest

7. A Watershed Moment For Zoos And Aquariums? Exploring Feminist Posthumanist Theories And Pedagogies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781433147210

1433147211

OCLC:

1142930353

Publisher Number:

99990016097