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The production of space in Mallorca results from two seminal socio-economic convulsions. This paper analyzes both of them. Firstly the Germanies rebellion defeat (1523) that is understood as the Big Bang of 'paleocapitalism' at the Island; and secondly the emergence of the tourism and real estate economic model deployed in the island since 1950. Our analysis front both episodes and show parallelisms and differences between them. All in all, in order to deep in the mechanism of space production and envisage how to manage it in order to prioritize the general interest in front of private and speculative interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nature's subordination to the production of value is the basis of its commodification for the expansion of capitalism. Formal subsumption incorporates inputs from nature, while real subsumption produces nature, conveniently transforming it to fit in with the morphology, regulation and functionalization of a tourism product. This process calls for humanity's removal and estrangement from the rest of nature. Ecotourism wraps nature, the local inhabitants and tourists in a veil of a spatial fetishism, masking the real production conditions and converting places, people and their heritage into bait for leisure consumers in search of an illusory paradise where they can become at one with the environment. By generating new surplus value from the sale of transitory goods-services, a temporary spatial solution is sought to the crisis in capital accumulation through a combination of psychological (dis)satisfaction and nature conservation as a way of rescuing capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This case study explores the tension between two contrasting models of culture in Girona based on fieldwork conducted with Fal-lera Gironina, a popular culture group that performs the municipal festive imagery. The festival model of Girona City Hall pivots around the city center and strives to attract tourists from beyond Girona and Catalonia. Meanwhile, popular culture's festa model is local, centered on community participation and community building. Whereas the former seeks economic gain, the latter depends on people collectively contributing their time without economic motivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution draws on ongoing ethnographic studies being conducted in Matera, Italy, and analyses the foundation of narratives, stereotypes and discursive rhetoric surrounding the city's historical events that have the potential to influence the definition of the city's contemporary urban identity. The main objective of the research is to reflect on certain processes related to the periods during which inhabitants of the Sassi districts were displaced and relocated to new urban suburbs. It also addresses the city's wealth of heritage recognitions and the recent creation of a tourist imagery that makes use of stereotyped and historically decontextualised memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a sociocultural, historical and political analysis of tourism development in Barcelona and a critical reflection on the function of cultural heritage within this scenario. In a context dominated by the logics of consumption and production associated with tourism, heritage elements and cultural points of reference become attractions and a support for identity. The article focuses on debate surrounding the relationship between tourism and heritage, demonstrating that, although history provides evidence of tourism's appropriation of heritage, the management of such heritage has not been fully taken on by the tourism industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trapped between two diametrically opposite political currents-the Islamists on one side and the progressives on the other-tourism has been the object of both political instrumentalisation and religious stigma in Tunisia. Its unique circumstances, like a microcosmos that materialises these tensions, make it relevant, as it provides evidence of a triply problematic relationship: with the other, with oneself and with the past. It also serves to render the ambivalence that has all too often marked Tunisian society visible, given the image it portrays of Orient and Occident, of tradition and modernity, and of religion and politics. This is especially revealing in terms of the country's increasingly shaken state, especially following the 2011 revolution; a result of unrest and the actions surrounding the subsequent political transition, which is the subject of debate between those in favour of the democratic model and, insidious and creeping in the shadows, those that advocate theocracy. In light of this, I have chosen to devote this article to exposing the situation surrounding tourism in Tunisia as a result of this transition, making special emphasis on the unending ploys orchestrated by the Islamist party Ennahdha to appropriate tourism-since they cannot eradicate it-and convert it into a type of path that allows the country to open itself up to the halal market or, as I coin it in the article, the para-halal market. I will also address the attempts made by other Islamist currents to lay siege on tourism either by perpetuating terrorist attacks directed at tourists or by carrying out invasion campaigns to take over tourist areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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