Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City (Hardcover)

Contents

List of tables and illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributors

1. Urban tourism and its discontents: an introduction

(Johannes Novy and Claire Colomb)

2. No conflict? Discourses and management of tourism-related tensions in Paris

(Maria Gravari-Barbas and Sebastien Jacquot)

3. The selling (out) of Berlin and the de- and re-politicization of urban tourism in Europe’s ‘Capital of Cool’

(Johannes Novy)

4. Touristification and awakening civil society in post-socialist Prague

(Michaela Pixova and Jan Sladek)

5 Density wars in Silicon Beach: the struggle to mix new spaces for toil, stay and play in Santa Monica, California

(Deike Peters)

6. Contesting China’s tourism wave. Identity politics, protest, and the rise of the Hongkonger city state movement

(Daniel Garrett)

7. From San Francisco’s ‘Tech Boom 2.0’ to Valparaiso’s UNESCO World Heritage Site: resistance to tourism gentrification in a comparative political perspective

(Florian Opillard)

8. Tourism provision as protest in ‘post-conflict’ Belfast

(Emily Bereskin)

9. The “No Grandi Navi” campaign. Protests against cruise tourism in Venice

(Michele Vianello)

10. Favela tourism: negotiating visitors, socio-economic benefits, image and representation in Pre-Olympics Rio de Janeiro

(Anne-Marie Broudehoux)

11. Politics as early as possible: democratising Olympics by contesting Olympic bids

(John Lauermann)

12. Attracting international tourism through mega-events and the birth of a conflict culture in Belo Horizonte

(Lucia Capanema Alvares, Altamiro S. Mol Bessa, Thiago Pinto Barbosa and Karina Machado de Castro Simao)

13. The right to Gaudi. What can we learn from the commoning of Park Guell, Barcelona?

(Albert Arias-Sans and Antonio Paolo Russo)

14. Of artisans, antique dealers, and ambulant vendors: culturally stratified conflicts in Buenos Aires’ historic centre

(Jacob Lederman)

15. The abrupt rise (and fall) of creative entrepreneurs: socio-economic change, the visitor economy and social conflict in a traditional neighbourhood of Shanghai

(Non Arkaraprasertkul)

16. The Living vs. the dead in Singapore: contesting the authoritarian tourist city

(Jason D. Luger)

17. “Fantasies of antithesis”: Assessing Hamburg’s Gangeviertel as a tourist attraction

(Nina Fraeser)

Index