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- Title
Leticia para turistas: imaginarios, narrativas y representaciones de una ciudad amazónica.
- Authors
Aponte Motta, Jorge
- Abstract
Leticia is a Colombian city on the Amazon River, consolidated as a jungle tourist destination. This city can be viewed from three narrative perspectives: the "nationalist", the "wild" and the "eco-adventure". I suggest that the "performance" of the city to support the last narrative perspective is generating a deep symbolic transformation in urban monuments, from nationalist imagery to tourism related imagery. This city produced by and for tourism and the "enjoyment of the Amazon" is highly exclusionary. The hotel architecture communicates that the city enjoyed by tourists is denied to its inhabitants, producing an urbs that denies the polis and civitas dimensions of the city.
- Publication
Cuadernos de Geografia: Revista Colombiana de Geografía, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 2, p93
- ISSN
0121-215X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15446/rcdg.v26n2.59210