Place, power, and tourism in value-creation: contesting the plaza in Pisac, Peru

Abstract

Place, power, and tourism intersect as disparate actors attempt to create and extract different forms of value from shared spatial resources. In Pisac, Peru, various stakeholders pursue their interests through and in relation to the plaza. Participant observation and interviews show how traders, residents, tour guides and municipal agents make competing claims over place through their engagement with evolving tourism practices. Power is exercised through physical and symbolic visibility, tactical use of expertise and control of information, temporal and spatial orchestration of mobility, acts of micro-aggression leading to exclusion and invisibility, coupled with unfulfilled political promises and inaction regarding governance. These practices and strategies help to construct and extricate economic, social, and political value from intersections of tourism and place.

摘要

当不同的行动者试图从共享的空间资源中创造和提取不同形式的价值时, 地点、权力和旅游业就会产生交集。在秘鲁Pisac, 各种利益相关者通过广场和与广场相关的活动来追求他们的利益。通过对参与者的观察和访谈表明, 商人、居民、导游和市政代理人如何通过他们与不断发展的旅游实践的接触而相互竞争。权力是通过有形和象征性的可见性、策略性地运用专业知识、控制信息、时空上和谐的移动、导致排斥和隐形的微观侵略行为, 以及未兑现的政治承诺和治理方面的不作为来行使的。这些实践和策略有助于从旅游和地方的交叉点构建和释放经济、社会和政治价值。

Keywords:

• Community
• conflict
• local power relations
• Peru
• Pisac
• place
• relational power
• value-creation
• value-extraction

关键词:

• 社区
• 冲突
• 地方权力关系
• 秘鲁
• 皮萨克
• 地方
• 关系性权力
• 价值创造
• 价值提取

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Correction Statement

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Notes on contributors

Rosa Codina

Rosa Codina (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Events at Oxford Brookes University, UK where she conducts research into the socio-political aspects of tourism and events, with a particular focus on developing nations. Rosa was awarded a PhD in Tourism from Oxford Brookes University in 2018. Her research examined the impacts of tourism development on the social relations and power dynamics of the Andean rural town of Pisac, Peru. Email: [email protected]

Peter Lugosi

Peter Lugosi (PhD) is a Professor at the Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University. He has researched and published on a wide range of subjects including parenting cultures, migration and migrant labour issues, research methods and ethics, consumer experiences, and organisational behaviour. His work appears in a variety of outlets including Qualitative Inquiry, Space and Culture, The Sociological Review, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, and Urban Studies. Peter co-founded and co-edits the Hospitality & Society journal. Email: [email protected]

David Bowen

David Bowen (PhD) is a Reader and Head of Doctoral Programmes at the Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University. David’s interests focus on tourist consumer behaviour and research methods. He has recently published on these and other topics in Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Tourism Recreation Research, Service Industries Journal, Journal of Vacation Marketing and the International Journal of Tourism Research. Email: [email protected]