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Turismo e commercio tra competizione economica e istanze culturali. Il caso della promozione turistica dello shopping a Parigi
No full textUna serie eterogenea di portatori di interesse mobilita articolate strategie per far fronte alla competizione urbana internazionale a partire dalla capacità attrattiva del consumo esperienziale associato all’andar per compere. Seguendo un approccio post-strutturalista, in questo articolo sono presi in considerazione alcuni elementi solo apparentemente distanti l’uno dall’altro che caratterizzano la promozione turistica dello shopping a Parigi, analizzata attraverso il concetto già presente nella letteratura francese di mise en tourisme. L’articolo fa riferimento tanto alla letteratura degli studi sul turismo quanto degli urban studies per soffermarsi sulle implicazioni socio-spaziali del fenomeno trattato
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies
No full textTourism mobilities play a significant role in how European identity and the European space are imagined, encountered, and negotiated, but this role has rarely been interrogated. To address this gap, the present article discusses the nexus between tourism and Europeanness, drawing from the concept of ‘travelling imaginative geographies of Europe’. This concept was developed from literature that identifies Europeanness as everyday practice, geographical imaginations, tourism, and mobilities. To test the concept, a limited number of tourist pictures that were shared in a pilot study conducted with 24 ‘students-cum-tourists’–international Master’s-level students who had gone on tourist trips across Europe–are presented. The pilot study results revealed that travelling imaginative geographies reproduces and challenges consolidated narratives on Europeanness, including the role of cultural heritage and tourism mobilities, urban sociability and public space, embodied semiotics, and perceived ..
Rethinking the retail and tourism Nexus as a heritage-making performance: A European perspective
No full textThe frictional geography of cultural heritage. Grounding the Faro Convention into urban experience in Forlì, Italy
Get PDFCultural heritage is nurtured by, and nurtures, space and place dynamics that are multidimensional and ambiguous. In this paper I engage with a ‘frictional geography’ of heritage-making to question the principles and practices of the FrameworkConvention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Societyof the Council of Europe, a charter predicated on the principle of citizens’ inclusion and co-operation. The friction metaphor has emerged in the last decade in social and cultural geographies, bringing together globalisation, mobilities and more-than-human approaches. I will refer to an ethnographic study based in Forlì, Italy, where the local administration has been supporting a Faro process from 2016 to 2018. Reflecting on this case study, I ask: What happens once the principles of local democracy and heritage co-construction are enacted on the ground of everyday urban experiences? What frictions, conflicts and ambiguities arise? The case of Forlì serves as a useful illustration of how diverse acceptances of the same heritage-making process coexist and ‘rub’ against one another. A ‘frictional geography’ approach might also be employed to explore other place-making processes, especially those accompanied by the claim of the right of citizens to participate, on the one hand, and increasing societal conflicts, on the other
Neighbourhood branding and urban regeneration: performing the 'right to the brand' in Casilino, Rome
Get PDFIn the last decade, many cities have experimented with small-scale initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of life of residents; these initiatives have somehow fostered a reconceptualization of the term, as well as practice, of urban regeneration. In this context, the role of civic networks in bringing forward experiments in the production of alternative imaginaries and place-making has gained a major role, in particular in marginal neighbourhoods. By focusing on a case study in the eastern periphery of Rome, the paper explores the case of citizen-led neighbourhood branding, highlighting open issues and ambiguities in claiming a 'right to the brand'
Questioning Walking Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective: Epistemological and Methodological Innovations
Get PDFThis article aims to illuminate the overlooked entanglement of space, material practices, affects, and cognitive work emplaced in walking tourism. Walking as a tourism activity is generally practised in the open air away from crowded locations; therefore, it is being encouraged even more in this (post)pandemic era than prior to the pandemic. While walking is often represented as a relatively easy activity in common promotional discourse, this article argues that it is much more complex. It revises the notion of tourist place performance, focusing on walking both as a tourist practice and as a research method that questions multi-sensory and emotional walker engagement. While extensively revisiting literature on walking tourism and the most novel methodological innovations, the article draws from a walking tourism experience undertaken as part of a student trip to demonstrate that the emotions that arise from walkers’ embodied encounters with living, as well as inanimate elements, extend beyond what might be included in a simple focus on landscape “sights”. In conclusion, it is suggested that a phenomenological approach to walking may prove particularly useful for understanding key issues associated with space, place, and tourism mobilities
Social mobility goes on holiday: rethinking space and communities through tourism mobilities
No full textThe evolution of tourism mobilities and their interactions with place have always comprised of ambiguous change dimensions relative to the social, spatial, and socio-spatial mobility of both guest and host communities alike. While different forms of tourism can offer opportunities for empowerment, they can also limit opportunities in ways that are unevenly distributed throughout the social spectrum. The aim of this opening to the special issue is to critically explore the different spheres in which social and spatial mobilities are enacted, reproduced, challenged, and negotiated in the context of the sub-discipline of tourism geographies. It considers multiple perspectives, while focusing on how ‘social mobility goes on holiday’ in three different spheres: (1) consumer societies, (2) regimented mobilities, and (3) empowerment through tourism, making specific reference to gender issues. Against this backdrop, emerging themes are discussed with reference to the entanglement of contemporary crises, and the societal and spatial im/mobilisations of subaltern communities, refugees, lifestyle migrants and local collectives. In this way, the frameworks proposed in this special issue help to analyse current societal and spatial challenges, and offer comprehensive answers through processes of theorisation and empirical interaction
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