Artifact of informal landscapes and the touristification of informal settlements in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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https://doi.org/10.26512/patryter.v9i17.54577Keywords:
turistification; informal settlements; Buenos Aires; commodification of space; informal landscapes.Abstract
In Latin America, tourism activity in low-income informal settlements is a relatively recent phenomenon, and it begun to emerge in the City of Buenos Aires over the last decade. This article presents the results of a study carried out between 2020 and 2023 on the commodification of space, the subsequent growth of tensions and conflicts over its appropriation, and its relation to the rise of community-based tourism. We discuss practices related to this activity in the Padre Mugica and Rodrigo Bueno neighborhoods, two informal settlements adjacent to the historic center district, where re-urbanization policies have been implemented. One of the main objectives of this study is to identify and understand how the community-based tourism involves acts of spacing that affect the artifact of informal landscapes configuration. The key aim is to provide knowledge about the complex and contradictory construction of this type of landscape of informality and its implication in the demarcation and persistence of socio-territorial inequality.
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