Description
This ebook Dogs in the Leisure Experience explores the social and cultural constructions and debates of what are dogs and what is leisure. It looks at how working dogs play a significant role in leisure experiences such as ensuring the safety of air transport, and considers the differing roles and changing acceptance of dogs’ involvement in sport. Within the setting of the animal welfare and sentience debates, it examines the leisure needs of dogs and their owners. Providing an original contribution to our understanding of dogs as both participants and objects in the leisure experience, this ebook is a useful resource for researchers in leisure, hospitality and tourism. The author utilises tourism and leisure experiences as a cross-disciplinary lens through which to view behaviour; with a particular emphasis on animals (particularly, but not exclusively, dogs) and animal welfare, and zoos. As such, his research is firmly situated within social science and areas of academic research. 185 p.
- Neil Carr. University of Otago (New Zealand).
- Publication date (reprint original edition 2014 to digital version): 2017-11.
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