Community, commons and tourism in Floreana (Galápagos Islands)

Autor: Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Revista de Antropología Social, Vol 26, Iss 2, Pp 333-354 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1131-558X
1988-2831
DOI: 10.5209/RASO.57609
Popis: Floreana inhabitants are increasingly dependent on tourism, but they do not locally control the tourist activity (flows, benefits, management). Thus, they intend to change the tourist model. The development of an alternative community-based tourism involves a necessary process of community building and the emergence of commons, which means a local repositioning both facing the market (incarnate in tour operators) and the State (defined by conservation policies). This process presents difficulties of external and internal origins, since the local society is heterogeneous. Floreana is a metaphor “good for thinking” multiple processes that are emerging in contemporary societies. How is a “commons” produced? How does community-building takes place? How much space is left between market and State to promote community and commons?
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