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Whales --- Whale watching

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Whale watching --- Whale watching --- Whale watching industry --- Whale watching --- Whale watching --- Whale watching industry --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects --- Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary (Hawaii) --- Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (Mass.)

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Within little more than a generation, whale-watching has been subject to global industrial development. It has been portrayed by destinations and business operators, and advocated by environmental groups, as a sustainable activity and an alternative to whaling. However, in recent years the sustainability of these activities has increasingly been questioned, as research shows that repeated disturbance by boat traffic can severely disrupt critical behaviours of cetaceans in the wild. Bringing together contributions by international experts, this volume addresses complex issues associated with commercial whale-watching, sustainable development and conservation of the global marine environment. It highlights widely expressed concerns for the failure of policy, planning and management and pinpoints both long-standing and emerging barriers to sustainable practice. Featuring numerous case studies, the book provides critical insights into the diverse socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts of this global industry, highlighting the challenges and opportunities that arise along the pathways to sustainability.

Whale watching --- Dolphin watching --- Cetacea --- Environmental aspects. --- Conservation.

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Whales --- Dolphins --- Whale watching --- Baleines. --- Dauphins. --- Cétacés --- Baleines --- Dauphins --- Marsouins --- Observations.

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and environmental humanities, the book critically examines the colonial histories of whaling, their legacies in contemporary tourism from whale-watching excursions to the performing orcas at SeaWorld, and cultural representations of anxieties about extinction in recent literature, television, and film. Extensively researched and engagingly written, the four essays that comprise The Cetacean Quartet should appeal to scholars in a number of different fields as well as to general readers interested in finding out more about our enduring, guilt-ridden fascination with one of the world's most iconic living creatures, the whale.

Whales. --- Whaling --- Whale watching. --- Whales --- Cetacea --- Watching whales --- Wildlife watching --- History. --- Conservation. --- Literary Studies --- African, Asian and Postcolonial Literatures (Lit Studies) --- Literature and the Environment (Lit Studies) --- Animals and Society (Anth) --- Monograph