Care in the contested geographies of Dolphin-Assisted Therapy

Taylor, C. Scott; Carter, Jennifer L.

doi:10.1080/14649365.2018.1455217

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“…However, DAT appears as a challenging field of reflection, in which we can see how the human-animal bond can be an intense psychological stimulus, even instrumental in shaping a child's emotional development, even projective; in activating the adult's affective-emotional mechanisms; in promoting '"relations of obligation" built on mutual "caring for" as both companion species and work colleague' (Scott Taylor & Carter, 2018).…”

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Healing and Caring in Dolphin-Assisted Therapy: Criticisms of Effectiveness and Ethical Issues

Candelieri¹

2018

Gestalt Theory

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Since the 1970s, new therapeutic practices, involving the interaction between humans and dolphins - Tursiops truncatus in particular, have developed. Such practices are known as dolphin-assisted therapies (DAT), a specific case of a more heterogeneous set of experiences with dolphins called dolphin-assisted activities (DAA): these include programmes of dolphin watching and swimming in high seas, as well as shows in dolphinariums and marine parks. DAT has grown rapidly as a highly attractive form of therapy, due to the well-liked animals used in an aquatic, and often exotic, environment. This kind of co-therapy seems to testify the enchantement that dolphins - in myths and chronicles often reported in rescue at sea, perceived as especially charismatic - exert on people; the human attempt of bonding with them, possibly in response to the need of building a human-animal bodily intersubjectivity.

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Healing and Caring in Dolphin-Assisted Therapy: Criticisms of Effectiveness and Ethical Issues

Candelieri¹

2018

Gestalt Theory

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“…In their study of ‘legacy dolphins’ – those ‘in human care’ who ‘cannot in good conscience be returned to the wild without near-certain deadly consequences’ – Taylor and Carter (2018: 2) found that captivity is experienced differently by different animals, thus recognising the unique experiences of spaces and places for animals as individuals. Bear et al (2017) and Holloway and Bear (2017) seek to understand how dairy cows experience dairy farming and new milking technologies.…”

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“…Some recent work extends beyond this traditional remit towards non-terrestrial, non-mammalian species (notable earlier examples include Bear, 2011; Beisel et al, 2013; Phillips, 2013). Recent research on aquatic animals examines the lives of captive marine mammals (Taylor and Carter, 2018); experiences of killing fish deemed ‘invasive’ species (Atchison et al, 2017); ecological effects and affects of fisheries bycatch (Magrane and Johnson, 2017); and the legality (Braverman, 2018) and economies (Bear, 2017) of marine life.…”

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Animal geographies I: Hearing the cry and extending beyond

Gibbs

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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Research on animal geographies is burgeoning. This report identifies key themes emerging in the sub-discipline over the past two to three years. It begins with an overview of the growing empirical, conceptual and methodological diversity of the field. It then explores two themes, which seek, in turn, to look very closely at the animal and beyond it. The first theme incorporates efforts to attend to the lived experiences of animals and the nonhuman side of human-animal relations: to ‘hear the cry’ of the nonhuman. The second includes attempts to move beyond both the kinds of animals most commonly considered within the field of animal geographies, and beyond the animal itself.

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“…Those who did not travel so far were more inclined to describe specific data collection events. For example, Taylor and Carter (2018) specify how they undertook daily observation and photography of in-water sessions, alongside attending clinic sessions and consultations, to understand dolphin therapy; Roelofsen and Minca (2018) took part in 50 Airbnb events – either welcoming guests or being welcomed by others – to understand how these social interactions played out; Bos (2018) observed five military videogaming sessions, along with interviewing people as they played, to explore this form of everyday geopolitics. Meetings were also popular amongst the second group, with Boyce (2018) attending meetings between activists and officials to question border policing practices in Detroit, Cockayne (2018) being present at over 100 conferencing and networking events in San Francisco to explore gender performance in the digital economy, and Kay (2018) observing industry meetings and conferences to see how American conservation finance companies handle forests.…”

Section: Two Routes To Authoritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative methods II: On the presentation of ‘geographical ethnography’

Hitchings

Latham

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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This review examines how ethnographic methods currently feature in the work of human geographers. The ethnographic approach continues to be a popular choice amongst those hoping to learn from how social life unfolds in particular places and settings. But what visions of ethnography do geographers draw on to attain authorial authority? What are the implications of how they present their field experiences? How, linking back to our last review, is their ethnographic work connected to the interview? And what are some of the downsides to how the term is deployed in the discipline?

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Care in the contested geographies of Dolphin-Assisted Therapy

Cited by 10 publications

References 75 publications

Healing and Caring in Dolphin-Assisted Therapy: Criticisms of Effectiveness and Ethical Issues

Healing and Caring in Dolphin-Assisted Therapy: Criticisms of Effectiveness and Ethical Issues

Animal geographies I: Hearing the cry and extending beyond

Qualitative methods II: On the presentation of ‘geographical ethnography’

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