Macià Blázquez-Salom is Professor in Geography at the Universitat de les Illes Balears. He teaches and researches on tourism, sustainability and land use planning. He has been visitor scholar in universities of Mexico (Toluca and La Paz), Nicaragua (UNAN), Dominican Republic (INTEC), Austria (Salzburg), Germany (Rurh-Bochum), Sweden (Mid-Sweden) and the Netherlands (Wageningen). As a way to link activism and research, within the framework of Radical Geography and Political Ecology, he collaborates with social movements in Spain, particularly in the Balearic Islands (https://www.gobmallorca.com/), but also in Latin America (https://www.albasud.org/).
Sessions in which Macià Blázquez-Salom participates
Sunday 6 August, 2023
This panel will be a discussion on multilingual scholarship. In an academic world where metrics rules and english language journal are setting the norms, why building multilingual scholarship? What it involves for the scholars who make those choices? Those are the line of inquiry that we will explore in this panel.
Monday 7 August, 2023
Tourism governance facilitates dialogue among interest groups, particularly in matters concerning destination planning and management, through transparency in the formulation of public policies. Its benefits are demonstrated in the form of improved autonomous political debate by civil society, contributing to emancipatory movements as opposed to just protest or defence-type ones. However, we also found that tourism governance has been used to promote urban growth or to boost the economy, w...
Sessions in which Macià Blázquez-Salom attends
Thursday 3 August, 2023
International tourism and global capitalism is currently in the throes of a series of profound and recurrent crises. While much of the recent attention has been on the recovery of tourism from the shock triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recently, the intensifying climate crisis, the current conjuncture is marked by a “polycrisis” (Tooze, 2022). It is one moreover, that is compounded by an intensification of political divisions and a legitimation crisis of democracy. This t...