Animal Welfare in Macau: Dog Racing and Gambling Heritage
For a brief period in the 1930s and then for over five decades until 2018, greyhound racing was one of the attractions that helped shape Macau’s repertoire as the gambling capital of the Far East. This lecture is an exploration of Macau’s long-standing gambling culture through a closer investigation of the cultural construction of non-human animals, the factors that led to the closure of the two dog-racing businesses, and the city’s belated developments in animal welfare. I will highlight some impacts of the city’s gambling heritage, which has sprawled into various corners of life in Macau, towards the twenty-first-century campaigns to eliminate dog racing from the city’s landscape. Overall, this study presents an opportunity to rethink our relationship to and preconceptions of animals in a world where economic interests and human needs are often first and foremost in priority.
Date: Monday, 21 November 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (Macau)
Location: Classroom 102, USJ Ilha Verde Campus
Organised by: Xavier Research Centre for Memory and Identity (USJ)
Moderated by: Prof. Denis Zuev, Director of the Xavier Research Centre for Memory and Identity
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