Rita CRUZ, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Different forms of social fascism (Santos, 2002), sometimes isolated, sometimes combined, have accompanied the development of tourism in Latin America and reproduced, through different national territories, processes such as social segregation of excluded people (social apartheid fascism), and usurpation of State prerogatives by powerful social actors, the so-called parastatal fascism, especially in its territorial aspect.
Based on the theoretical proposal of Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2002), we defined as the main objective of this work to produce, from a dialectical perspective, an analysis on the production of Brazilian space for tourism in the 21st century, considering evidences that these types of fascism are part of the Brazilian reality where an urbanization for vacation is structuring the spaces.
The advance, throughout Brazilian territory, of the so-called real estate tourism, for example, is often accompanied by the expulsion of residents by the real estate and tourism valorization of extensive areas well endowed with urban infrastructure, unlike those where local inhabitants are forced to settle (Cruz, 2022). Besides, it is important to highlight the close relationship between real estate tourism and "financial fascism", another type of social fascism referred by Santos (2002), which has AirBnb as its maximum expression.
Examples of parastatal fascism also abound in the processes of production of spaces for tourism in Brazil, especially in urban spaces, through the relaxation of legal norms, the use of legal subterfuges and various jurisprudences accompanied by the destruction of protected natural areas and expulsion of resident populations.
As a methodological strategy, we will analyze case studies geographically distributed along the Brazilian coast, which concentrates mass tourism in the country, focusing on the Northeast and Southeast regions.
Mots clés : social fascism|tourism|territory|contradictions|Brazil
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