Contested heritage and alternative tourism practices
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Maria Gravari-Barbas, professor at Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, addresses the question of heritage and tourism on the margins, in tension or emerging. Gustavo Bosquette examines the tourism and heritage aspects of a tragic event in Brazil, the collapse of the Brumadinho dam, which claimed 272 lives. Yannick Vialette examines the heritage of scientific legacies in the tourism of mountain areas in the French Alps. Allison Blythe Strickland observes the tensions between the heritage and depatrimonialization of the sexual symbolism of the Pigalle district (Paris, France) as it is turned into a tourist attraction. Marc-Olivier Vezina questions the practice of the gay sauna as a universal component of Pride, a global cultural identity.
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Tourism, although still considered a developing field of study, centres its epistemology on the human being, who departs from his/her everyday life to engage in the subjective phenomenon of traversing globalized territories. Within this broad spectrum, dark tourism emerges as a global phenomenon in which numerous people travel to explore a wide range of places, monuments, and attractions that offer (re...
Based on a study of scientific tourism practices in the French mountains, this paper aims to examine the ways in which science contributes to the rediscovery of these areas for tourism in the current context of global change (environmental, societal, mobility, etc.).Scientific tourism is defined as a ...
The Pigalle district lies on the border of the 9th and 18th arrondissements of Paris. Since the opening of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret in 1886, Pigalle has been internationally recognized as a sex district and a major tourist area in Paris. Using this district as a case study, this research analyzes conflicting heritage (creation, evolution, preservation, and destruction)...
From a transnational perspective of territorial practices, the increased interconnection between people and the economic and social importance of the receding borders between nation-states have contributed to the exposure and dissemination of certain elements, practices, and uses of territory that transcend borders. One of these elements is Pride. In the same vein as the work of the American sociologis...
