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Online Lecture Series „Touristified Landscapes after the Pandemic – Protest and Resistance in Europe”

Online Lecture Series „Touristified Landscapes after the Pandemic – Protest and Resistance in Europe”

 

3.12. | 10.12. | 14.1. | 21.1. –> always from 6-7:30 pm (CET)

This lecture series focuses and discusses the massive impact of tourism in European cities. By inviting leading scholars from the field this lecture series provides analytical as well as empirical insights and perspectives from different hotspots of touristification in Europe. It delves into politico-economic, planning and environmental issues related to touristification.

 

Programme and presenters:

3.12.24

”Resisting touristification in Lisbon” by Agustín Cócola- Gant (University Lisbon)

“Tourism, inequality and resistance in Seville” by Jaime Jover (University of Sevilla)

 

10.12.24

“Touristification and housing crisis in Prague” by Martina Pixova (BOKU Vienna)

“Covid-19 and (de)politization of tourism conflicts in Berlin” by Nils Grube (TU Berlin)

 

14.1.25

“Towards the sixth wave of gentrification? Exploring socio-spatial transformations in Athens” by Angeliki Paidakaki (Harokopio University, GR) & Georgia Alexandri (KIT, Karlsruhe)

 

21.1.25

“Is tourism (still) the “new oil”? Mainstream Narratives and Counter-practices in Southern Italy” by Teresa Graziano (University of Catania)

„Naples between touristification and resistance: the Resta Abitante campaign“ by Martina Locorotondo (GSSI, L’Aquila, IT)

 

This lecture series is organized by Christian Smigiel (PLUS Salzburg) and Alejandro Armas Díaz (Universidad de La Laguna)

MS TEAMS: Besprechungs-ID: 368 628 347 075

For more information: christian.smigiel@plus.ac.at and at https://www.plus.ac.at/soziologie-und-sozialwissenschaftliche-geographie/