Fieldwork as becoming: re-mapping affective post-humanist ethnography in tourism through confessions
通过忏悔式视觉双人民族志，反思研究者与非人实体的纠缠，批判人类中心主义，提出情感伦理和知识互惠，推动旅游田野工作转向更包容的多物种实践。
Using a confessional visual duo-ethnography, we problematise the anthropocentric underpinnings of hospitality and propose affective ethics of becoming-with the more-than-human in sustainable knowledge-making. We do so by exploring researcher-more-than-human entanglements within remote tourism fieldwork. Situated within a new materialist framework, we engaged in collaborative visual memory-work, dialogical reflexivity, and confessional narratives to reassess our experiences as ethnographers. Our findings highlight the role of more-than-human entities as active participants in research, offering hospitality, care, and agency that influence researcher reflexivity, identity, and ethical responsibilities in the field. Through retrospective reflections, we interrogate our own taken-for-granted biases, emphasising the need to move from “data collection” to “knowledge reciprocity” in sustainable tourism scholarship. Our confessions prompt a re-evaluation of researchers’ responsibilities to engage with alternative worldviews, dismantle the hegemonic humanist hierarchy in ethnography, and propose a map of affective post-humanist ethnography that fosters an ethical and epistemological reorientation. Findings reveal the need to develop more empathetic and inclusive research practices that fully acknowledge the complex, emotional, relational, and multi-species dimensions of tourism field(work).