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Overcoming urban frontiers: Ordering Favela tourism actor-networks

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    Identifier: imarina:9262330
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9262330
    Authors:
    Altamirano ME
    Abstract:
    This paper examines the multiple and heterogeneous, current and potential, relations between hybrid actors of tourism in Favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro. It seeks to elucidate the legitimizing potential of tourists acting as “connectors” that reach beyond formal politics’ hindrances. This work applies assemblage theory epistemological framework, and Actor-Network Theory ethnomethodological tools, to explore the issues and roles questioned, altered, made visible, or transformed through favela tourists’ practices and performances. Hence, avoiding the ethical dilemmas and representational concerns from slum tourism researchers in the past. Our fieldwork engages with two favela tours. We follow tourists as they stitch hybrid actor-networks that create multiple orderings in such assemblages, and their material and semiotic configurations. Our research reveals that such tours could be related to different shifts in the favela’s political, social, economic, cultural, and material dimensions.

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    Author, as appears in the article.: Altamirano ME
    Department: Geografia
    URV's Author/s: Altamirano, Maria Eugenia
    Keywords: Urban tourism Slum tourism Slum Favela Assemblage thinking Actor-network theory urban tourism slum tourism assemblage thinking actor-network theory
    Abstract: This paper examines the multiple and heterogeneous, current and potential, relations between hybrid actors of tourism in Favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro. It seeks to elucidate the legitimizing potential of tourists acting as “connectors” that reach beyond formal politics’ hindrances. This work applies assemblage theory epistemological framework, and Actor-Network Theory ethnomethodological tools, to explore the issues and roles questioned, altered, made visible, or transformed through favela tourists’ practices and performances. Hence, avoiding the ethical dilemmas and representational concerns from slum tourism researchers in the past. Our fieldwork engages with two favela tours. We follow tourists as they stitch hybrid actor-networks that create multiple orderings in such assemblages, and their material and semiotic configurations. Our research reveals that such tours could be related to different shifts in the favela’s political, social, economic, cultural, and material dimensions.
    Thematic Areas: Tourism, leisure and hospitality management Hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism Ciencias sociales
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 1468-7976
    Author's mail: mariaeugenia.altamirano1@estudiants.urv.cat mariaeugenia.altamirano1@estudiants.urv.cat
    Record's date: 2024-09-07
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14687976221090738
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Tourist Studies. 22 (2): 200-222
    APA: Altamirano ME (2022). Overcoming urban frontiers: Ordering Favela tourism actor-networks. Tourist Studies, 22(2), 200-222. DOI: 10.1177/14687976221090738
    Article's DOI: 10.1177/14687976221090738
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2022
    Publication Type: Journal Publications

  • Keywords:

    Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
    Urban tourism
    Slum tourism
    Slum
    Favela
    Assemblage thinking
    Actor-network theory
    urban tourism
    slum tourism
    assemblage thinking
    actor-network theory
    Tourism, leisure and hospitality management
    Hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism
    Ciencias sociales

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