Production of a Tourist Space and Territorial Governance Regime in French Guiana (Guyane Française)—The Challenges of Touristification in the Peripheral Territory of Haut-Maroni

IF 1.2 Q3 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Luc Renaud, B. Sarrasin
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This article focuses on the processes of territorialization of the local population’s living space, created by the governance regime in French Guiana, and their effects on the production of a tourist space in the context of sparsely populated regions. The Guiana Amazonian Park is analyzed as a territorialization agent with mechanisms that influence the development of tourism in the Maripasoula/Haut-Maroni zone. Our objective is to use the territorial framework to better understand the political and geographical dynamics that exist between the processes of the global production of tourist areas and those related to the local population’s management of the living space. Using Critical political geography framework, this study is based on documentary research and on 15 semi-directed interviews, conducted during a month-long stay in 2019, with different groups of stakeholders involved directly or indirectly in tourist activities. The paper first outlines the regional and local context of tourism in French Guiana. It also offers a territorial description of the different inclusion criteria for Sparsely Populated Regions in the Maripasoula/Haut-Maroni region, which is linked to the specific tourist practices in this territory. The processes of territorialization are then analyzed through the different governance regimes the French state created in order to understand how they fit into the production of a tourist space. Finally, a reflection on the future of tourism in this region is proposed, particularly regarding colonial governance regimes vis-à-vis Indigenous populations in the region. Our analysis demonstrates that tourism, along with any other form of activity to be developed in Maripasoula/Haut-Maroni territory, will be systematically confronted with the same structural constraints that have helped to reproduce the dynamics of territorial dispossession since the establishment of a colonial regime in the region.
法属圭亚那(Guyane franaise)旅游空间和领土治理制度的生产——上马罗尼外围地区旅游化的挑战
本文关注的是法属圭亚那治理制度对当地居民生活空间的领土化过程,以及它们对人口稀少地区旅游空间生产的影响。圭亚那亚马逊公园被分析为具有影响Maripasoula/Haut-Maroni地区旅游业发展机制的属地化代理。我们的目标是利用地域框架来更好地理解全球旅游区生产过程与当地人口对生活空间的管理过程之间存在的政治和地理动态。本研究使用关键政治地理学框架,基于文献研究和15次半定向访谈,这些访谈是在2019年为期一个月的停留期间进行的,涉及直接或间接参与旅游活动的不同利益相关者群体。本文首先概述了法属圭亚那旅游的区域和地方背景。它还提供了马里帕索拉/上马罗尼地区人口稀少地区的不同纳入标准的地域描述,这与该地区的具体旅游实践有关。然后通过法国国家创建的不同治理制度来分析领土化的过程,以了解它们如何适应旅游空间的生产。最后,对该地区旅游业的未来提出了反思,特别是对该地区-à-vis土著人口的殖民统治制度。我们的分析表明,旅游业以及在马里帕索拉/上马罗尼领土上发展的任何其他形式的活动,将系统性地面临同样的结构性限制,这些限制有助于再现该地区殖民政权建立以来领土被剥夺的动态。
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Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia
Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
CiteScore
1.90
自引率
23.10%
发文量
33
审稿时长
15 weeks
期刊介绍: Tourism and Hospitality Management is an international, multidisciplinary, open access journal, aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of the tourism and hospitality industry. It publishes double-blind reviewed papers and encourages an interchange between tourism and hospitality researchers, educators and managers. Editors of Tourism and Hospitality Management strongly promote research integrity and aim to prevent any type of scientific misconduct, such as: fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, redundant publication and authorship problems. All submitted manuscripts are checked using Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate). Nurturing a scientifically based approach to research, the journal publishes original papers along with empirical research and theoretical articles that contribute to the conceptual development of tourism and hospitality management. Editors look particularly for articles about new trends, challenges and developments, as well as the application of new ideas that are likely to affect the tourism and hospitality industry. The general criteria for the acceptance of articles are: contribution to the scientific knowledge in the field of tourism and hospitality management, scientifically reliable research methodology, relevant literature review and quality of the English language.
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