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Delhi: Global Mobilities, Identity, and the Postmodern Consumption of Place

Pages 371-381 | Published online: 22 Sep 2010
 

Abstract

New regimes of tourism practice have emerged in the post-industrial environment, and new relationships to place have been forged. Tourism is characterized by the dominance of non-material forms of production, located in an economy of signs and space in which the consumption of signs is as important as the consumption of material goods. In this environment the production and consumption of place is accompanied by the search for symbolic values, such as authenticity. Paharganj, a district of Delhi, is one site where these practices are played out. Like all tourist sites, Paharganj is produced both discursively and materially. Discursive representations of Paharganj are the non-material products of recent mobile relations and transnational networks of knowledge. These textual interventions have created habitats of meaning for tourists and re-created transnational place where cultural and individual identities can be reaffirmed and reconfigured. Paharganj emerges as the site of a symbolic economy where both individual cultural capital and authenticity become commodities.

Nuevos regímenes de práctica del turismo han brotado en el ambiente post industrial y se han forjado nuevas relaciones con el lugar. El turismo se caracteriza por el predominio de formas no materiales de producción, localizadas en una economía de signos y espacio en los cuales el consumo de signos es tan importante como el consumo de los bienes materiales. En este medio ambiente, la producción y el consumo del lugar se acompaña con la búsqueda de valores simbólicos, tales como la autenticidad. Paharganj, un distrito de Delhi, es uno de los sitios a donde se materializaron estas prácticas. Como otros lugares turísticos, Paharganj se produjo tanto discursiva como materialmente. Las representaciones discursivas de Paharganj son productos no materiales de relaciones móviles recientes y redes trasnacionales del conocimiento. Estas intervenciones textuales han creado hábitats de significado a los turistas y recreado el sitio trasnacional, donde las identidades culturales e individuales pueden reafirmarse y reconfigurarse. Paharganj emerge como un sitio de una economía simbólica en donde tanto el capital cultural individual, como la autenticidad se han convertido en bienes de consumo.

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