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| Author(s): |
Maria Teresa Manfredo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2017-03-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Lúcia da Costa Ferreira;
Rodrigo de Azeredo Grünewald;
Deborah de Magalhães Lima;
Valeriano Mendes Ferreira Costa;
Michel Nicolau Netto
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| Advisor: | Lúcia da Costa Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
This is a case study that involves two areas of the Amazon Forest, where tourist activities are mostly focused on the international public. The main objective is to analyze how the tourism growth in the Manaus region promotes (at the same time reflects) negotiations involving local and global lines of forces. It is also a question of understanding how these processes have an impact on (and how they are affected by) the riverine and indigenous cultural dynamics. A bibliographic review about the subject was done, and field work was undertaken. Procedures of discourse analysis were used in regard to the content of the interviews, as well as about the material related to the theme involving the Amazon (some movies and reports), which, by reaching a wide audience, could be classificated as part of an international-popular repertoire about this touristic destination. We also used the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) model. The main hypothesis is that the processes of globalization have heterogeneous effects in different localities and are experienced in different ways. Cultural homogenization effects are a possibility, but globalized flows can also lead to processes of resistance or creative reappropriation of elements of a popular international culture, leading to the valorization, re-creation or re-signification of local cultural elements, and also imaginaries and conflicts. The discussion included the dense description of the relationships involving tourism in the region, and its contextualization in the contemporary world. Some theoretical issues involved refer to the concepts and notions of globalization, tradition, arena, social actors, conflicts. It was observed that the representations spread around the Amazon shape the context in which not only expectations or touristic demands are reproduced, but especially the imaginary(ies) about this tourist destination. Concisely, it was observed that new elements and old elements reconfigure aspects already known, contributing to transform and / or reinforce the production of local identities, ways of life, social imaginaries and conflicts. Thus, it contributes both to a reflection of the intertwining of the Amazon in current cultural and economic processes, and to a reflection that recognizes local and native populations as historical subjects of their own time, inserted in the context(s) of historical changes, products and producers of interrelated dynamics (in different ways and at different scales) within the political-economic and cultural systems of the contemporary world (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/13714-9 - Tourism in the Amazon: ressignification of cultural practices and of conflicts in the Manaus region |
| Grantee: | Maria Teresa Manfredo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |