英文摘要 |
How can zoos be both family recreational paradise and the place for animal imprisonment? Why the animal rights and ethics advocacies are absent in zoos? The authors argue that the recreational regime of visuality and the naturalization of landscape are answers to these questions. The educational visuality and the ethical visuality are suppressed under the dominant recreational visuality, supported by specific discourses, textual installations, spatial arrangements, and routine behaviors in zoos. The dominant regime of visuality ensures an attitude of novelty seeking, pleasure-pursuing, and indifference toward the imprisoned animals, and forms a differentiated way of seeing that focuses on celebrity animals. Furthermore, natural ambience shaped by the landscape design invokes the imagination of ecological habitats to naturalize and soften the confinement of animals, while the convenience, safety, and enjoyment of tourists are privileged. Finally, the authors propose a thoroughly repositioning of zoos to construct an ethical visuality that affirms the animal rights. |