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AbstractModern hunting appears to be undergoing an identity crisis as a result of transitioning from labour to leisure. This transition is by no means linear or absolute. Today, hunting is framed both as a hobby for the leisure participant, and as a societal duty that delivers wildlife management, pest control for agriculture, sustainably sourced meat and euthanasia of injured wildlife. Hunting is hence doubly serious as 'serious leisure': it involves skill and perseverance, but it is also seen as serious in constituting societal labour. In this article, we employ netnographic research to examine how and in what contexts labour‐leisure tensions are manifested among Swedish hunters. We observe hunters struggle with the balance between leisure and labour on four levels: (1) internally, when it comes to reconciling their personal motivations for hunting; (2) between hunters, resulting in the normative differentiation between 'urban leisure hunters' and everyday hunters in the countryside doing 'real' work; (3) between different hunting practices; and (4) between wanting to enjoy the freedom afforded by the leisure label, while also inviting formalisation of hunting's role as a public service, including compensation. Our findings show the contradiction between labour and leisure is also differently managed across these levels.

AbstractAlthough hunting is declining in western countries, the number of people taking the hunting exam in Sweden are stable, and new demographic groups are becoming hunters. Through interviews done in Sweden with both new and experienced hunters, as well as focus groups with young hunters at agricultural colleges, we investigate how they navigate praxis and ethical frameworks taught in hunting. Using theories on moral learning, as well as Walzer's thick and thin moral argument, we contrast the views of these young hunters with the ethical principles outlined in the educational literature for the hunting exam. We then present how young hunters reasoned around issues regarding hunting ethics, animal welfare and the place of hunting in modern society, both inside and outside the classroom. The young hunters we spoke to acted as moderators of modern trends in hunting, often bringing 'destabilising' influences like social media and female hunters. Young hunters are enculturated into traditional hunting structures and, in the process, caught in a dialectic between modern influences and traditional hunting culture. Our findings highlight challenges such as 'false consensus' and 'ethical trade‐offs' in the learning of hunting ethics, which emerge potentially due to a lack of space for deliberation on hunting ethics.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Working for the (hu)man in the tourism industry -- Part 1: Theoretical considerations -- 2 Conceptualizing non-human animals as "workers" within the tourism industry -- 3 Redefining the work of working animals in the tourism industry: An animal-centric reflection -- 4 Working donkeys in northwestern Mexico: Urban identity and tourism resources -- 5 Animal dark tourism in Mexico: Bulls performing their own slaughter -- 6 Farm animals' participation in tourism experiences: A time for proper respect -- Part 3: Value-added work -- 7 Animals as tourism stakeholders: Huskies, reindeer, and horses working in Lapland -- 8 Distributed leadership in tourism experiences: Russian sled dogs and Icelandic horses leading the way -- 9 A working holiday: From home to destination with a guide dog -- 10 The donkeys of Santorini: Workers or slaves? -- Part 4: Hidden labor -- 11 Monkey see, monkey do: The work of primates in Costa Rican sanctuaries -- 12 The greening of polar bears: Lively commodities in a climate change economy -- 13 "Cute, but get up and work!": The biophilia hypothesis in tourists' linguistic interactions with pandas -- 14 Working animal research: An agenda for the future -- 15 Afterword: On tourism, animals, and suffering – lessons from Aeschylus' Oresteia -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Index