Sport Hunting, Eudaimonia, and Tragic Wisdom

Tantillo, James A.

doi:10.5840/pcw20018225

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“…Ultimately, we observe that hunting is subject to many paradoxes. It is a blend of the traditional and artificial; it is naturalistic and contrived; it involves pride and remorse, emotion and detachment; instinct and intellect (Causey 1992;Tantillo 2001;Donald 2006;Griffin 2007;Kaltenborn et al 2013a;Gieser 2018). This makes it a good fit for serious leisure, where behaviour is observed to be complex, ambiguous, changing, and at times contradictory (Yarnal and Dowder 2002, p. 165).…”

Section: The Leisure Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Past echoes and modern pressures : on the changing ethics of modern hunting in Sweden

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2023

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae

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What do hunters consider an ethical hunt? Ethics are a central part of hunting as it concerns the killing of wildlife. Modern developments are exerting pressures on hunting affecting its practice and ethics. Normative ideals, such as animal welfare and sustainability, are growing in signi-ficance and questioning the legitimacy of hunting, pushing the question of ethical conduct. This research explores how modern developments shape contemporary hunting ethics and examines hunters’ concerns about the emerging dilemmas from various pressures affecting hunting. Exploring the prescriptions that hunters voice in relation to these developments reveals broader ethics and values held by hunters beyond communicated principles of ‘fair chase’ and ‘quick kill’. An applied ethics approach is taken, utilizing qualitative empirical data to analyse hunters’ perceptions of their own and other hunters’ ethical conduct in the face of modern developments, specifically technological innovation, commercialisation, demographic change and centralisation. The thesis thus sheds light on how hunters accommodate, reflect on, or resist these developments, providing insight into held values among hunters and their relationship with wildlife. Each of these developments are investigated, focusing on ethical issues and the emergence of dilemmas for hunters involving trade-offs between moral principles around fair chase, animal welfare and ecology. Results show that these developments affect how hunting is and should be practiced, causing tensions between different values and perspectives on the purpose of hunting and its continued role in society. The research concludes that ethical principles alone are not enough to guide modern hunters and that the hunting process, which is essential to ethical conduct and experience, is being compromised by modern pressures. Finally, three elements of hunting consisting of effort, knowledge, and purpose, are proposed as a complement to ethical principles to buffer against modern pressures and guide hunters towards an ethical hunting process.

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Section: The Leisure Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Past echoes and modern pressures : on the changing ethics of modern hunting in Sweden

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2023

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae

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“…Emotions and values are closely linked to personal meaning in environment and sustainability education (Manni et al, 2017). We suggest that the potential for developing environmental virtue is enhanced by the ‘specific tension’ in catching and possibly killing a wild animal (List, 2013) as well as the ‘realistic awareness of death’ (Tantillo, 2001) expressed as ‘humility, gratitude and respect’ (Evans, 2005; Jensen, 2001) or ‘excitement and remorse’ (Luke, 1997). This emotional depth offered by extractive angling, and its potential influence on value development, emerge precisely because of the ultimate and lethal intervention that is rejected by other modes of care.…”

Section: Is Recreational Fishing Particularly Conducive To Creating E...mentioning

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Reviving the unique potential of recreational fishers as environmental stewards of aquatic ecosystems

2022

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Recreational anglers have been key players in aquatic conservation, but this role is increasingly obscured. Other environmental sectors are now more visible stakeholders engaged with biodiversity. Recreational fishing has relevant environmental and moral implications, but these can be resolved via improved governance and management. More difficult is replacing the stewardship capacity provided by anglers. When analysed against a novel environmental stewardship framework based on place and identity, care, knowledge and agency, we find that marginalizing anglers could diminish aquatic biodiversity conservation. This outcome is likely because excellence in recreational fishing involves habituation of skills and ethical imperatives associated with sustainable and responsible use of fish populations. These dimensions are probably not so pertinent and correspondingly less developed in other nature stakeholders. Importantly, catching and killing wild animals catapults anglers into a food web and associated ecological conscience that most other outdoor activities cannot generate. As a result, recreational fishing often engenders feelings of care and responsibility for aquatic systems that support personal well‐being, bridging the stewardship value‐action gap through development of local assessment, management and evaluative competencies and associated agency. Transdisciplinary cooperation with scientists, managers and policymakers can unleash the stewardship potential of recreational anglers and engage their capacity for the common good.

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“…Trophy hunting is controversial among conservation scientists and the wider public (Dickman et al., 2019; Ghasemi, 2021; Greenfield, 2022). The academic debate around the efficacy of trophy hunting as a conservation tool is decades old (e.g., Baker, 1997), and discussions about the acceptability of trophy hunting date back further still (Tantillo, 2002). Recent, high‐profile events, such as the trophy hunting of Cecil the lion, have sparked public interest in the debate (Macdonald et al., 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%