Tourist gaze, natural space and democratization: The beginnings of environmentalism in Mallorca (1964-80)
Keywords:
Turism, environmentalism, spatial turn, democratization, TransitionAbstract
In this article we explain the decisive role of tourist imaginaries and land emotional incorporation in the genesis of the environmental movement in Mallorca at the end of the Franco regime and during the Transition. We propose the production of natural spaces due to environmental mobilization, as a consequence of previous processes of local assumption of the tourist-colonial gaze at the own landscape, combined with the accumulation of subaltern knowledge arising from previous experiences of the space. This explains why the local movement decolonized the ecological discourse of tourist origins, and finally contributed to the democratization of natural spaces.