Forms of transnational dwelling. The case of Vilcabamba, Ecuador

Abstract:

This essay investigates how different forms of 'residential tourism' or 'lifestyle migration', produced by populations coming from cities and territories of the so-called 'Global North', have triggered complex dynamics of social and spatial modification in the landscapes and rural environments of Vilcabamba, Ecuador, a small Andean town of approximately 5000 inhabitants. To analyze such processes, the concepts of 'extractive zone' and 'remittance urbanism', as defined respectively by Macarena Gómez-Barris and Sarah Lynn Lopez, become operative tools for spatial research practices. The result is a spatial representation of the ways in which some specific practices of residential tourism are territorialized, modifying the meaning and functioning of rural spaces in Vilcabamba.

Año de publicación:

2019

Keywords:

• Remittance urbanism
• Rural territories
• Extractive tourism

Fuente:

scopus