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What is Melancholic Imaginary

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Traveling through websites, portals, socio-technical networks, digital repositories, and virtual museums is a somewhat melancholy experience that expresses a tragic imaginary because we enjoy images of them more than enjoying the things themselves. In technological acceleration and mobilization, we no longer have a solid and secure foundation, a known and controlled territory, and a stable and guaranteed identity.
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Tourism as Experience and Desire for Territory and Traveling
Moisés de Lemos Martins (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch002
Abstract
The approach the author takes on tourism is not related to economic analysis, nor even a political analysis stricto sensu. He configures tourism as a cultural activity. The perspective developed on tourism is here phenomenological and socio-anthropological. Hence, the author does not dwell on business (nec/otium – not/leisure; activity, work, commerce) but mostly on leisure (otium – time free from activity). First, he points out that tourism reflects our current obsession with one territory and traveling in one territory. The second element developed in this chapter is the experience of traveling, which is always a possibility of an encounter – an encounter with the other and an encounter with nature.
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