TOURISM AND LAND CONFLICTS IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO:

A COMPARATIVE PROPOSAL

Authors

  • Lea Carvalho Rodrigues
  • Antônia Gabriela Pereira Araújo

Abstract

We compared ethnographic data collected by us in research conducted on the west coast of the coast of Ceará in Brazil, from 2007 to the present, with those collected in the Riviera Maya, Mexico, from 2011. The results of these agree with the international reference literature of the anthropology of tourism on the importance of land ownership in the formation of tourist destinations. They also agree that the effects of tourist expansion have been mostly negative for indigenous peoples and traditional communities that inhabit these areas and do not own the land. However, we question this literature as to the magnitude of these effects in the case of distinct contexts, something it does not contemplate. For the authors, the results indicate that the effects of territorial conflicts depend on local particularities, the legal apparatus of each country and the resilience of indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the face of the interests at stake.

KEYWORDS: Tourism. Traditional peoples and communities. Land ownership. Land conflicts.

Image: Forró Street in the municipality of Jijoca de Jericoacoara. Source: Authors.

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Author Biographies

Lea Carvalho Rodrigues

Full Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of Ceará

Antônia Gabriela Pereira Araújo

PhD in Anthropology, National Museum

Forró Street in the municipality of Jijoca de Jericoacoara. Source: Authors.

Published

2023-10-27

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Section

Dossier Anthropological Dialogues Brazil-Mexico: CIESAS - PPGA/UFPB