The Chronotope of Tourism: Spaces and Rhythms

  • Antonio Miguel Nogués-Pedregal Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universitas Miguel Hernández
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2012.v21.40053
Keywords: tourism, chronotope, signification, anthropological practice, globalisation

Abstract

According to the World Tourism Organisation, international tourism will reach one billion in 2012. This complex compound of practices and devices that we name ‘tourism’ is a distinctive way to use space (territory, landscape) and time (rhythm, occurrences). Tourism is an important globalising agent because it contributes to extend globalization to where new information and communication technologies have not reached yet. Bakhtin’s concept of ‘chronotope’ is valuable to characterize the way spatial and time elements are combined in tourism contexts. The data induce that Tourism is the most perfect and sophisticated elaboration of Capitalism for it consumes places and territories, shapes landscapes and perpetuates dependency relationships. Besides, it also produces sense and meanings, it mediates place through tourism space and update spaces and rhythms according to the guiding principles of Global Market. To conclude some notes on the distinctiveness of anthropological practices as carried out in tourism environments are made.

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Antonio Miguel Nogués-Pedregal, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universitas Miguel Hernández
es profesortitular de antropología social, director del departamento de ciencias socialesy humanas, e investigador principal del grupo de investigación ‘Culturdes’ (http://culturdes.umh.es) en la Universitas Miguel Hernández de Elche, que estudia las relacionesentre la cultura, el turismo y la (cooperación al) desarrollo. Sus estudiossobre las manifestaciones del poder, los procesos de signi cación y los procesossocio-culturales en contextos turísticos han sido traducidos a varios idiomas. Harealizado numerosas estancias en centros de investigación europeos y americanos y,desde hace años, es profesor visitante en el departamento de etnología de la Universidadde Ljubljana (Eslovenia). Ha coordinado la edición de los volúmenes Culturay turismo (Signatura ediciones 2003) y, de pronta aparición, el volumen Cultureand society in tourism contexts en la serie Tourism Social Science dirigida por JafarJafari (Emerald Group Publishing Limited).

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Published
2012-09-17
How to Cite
Nogués-Pedregal A. M. (2012). The Chronotope of Tourism: Spaces and Rhythms. Revista de Antropología Social, 21, 147-171. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RASO.2012.v21.40053
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Vol. 21 (2012): Antropología, Globalización y Prácticas Etnográficas
Section
Monographic

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