Claudio Milano
Biographic Data
| ID | 135174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Milano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Milano |
| SIGNATURE | MILANO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Lleida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4349-367X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond the algorithm: Cooperative alternatives to platform capitalism in urban delivery workforces
Digital labour platforms have transformed urban delivery by expanding precarious labour regimes grounded in algorithmic management, outsourcing, and deregulation. In Barcelona, an emblematic setting of platform capitalism, these transformations have generated both intensified precarisation and new worker-led responses. Within this context, delivery cooperatives have emerged as organisational alternatives that seek to reconfigure digital labour ar…
Precarious work and tourism labour regimes: Insights from Benidorm
Benidorm referred to as ‘the Mediterranean Manhattan’ due to its distinctive vertical urbanism is often regarded as an exemplary case of mass tourism. This paper critically examines the labour regime underpinning Benidorm’s tourism-driven economy, exploring the working conditions and the intergenerational schisms and differential lived experiences of work. Despite providing year-round jobs, Benidorm faces issues like informal economies and demogr…
Polycrisis and the metamorphosis of tourism capitalism
While the disruption caused by the COVID19 pandemic has receded, tourism capitalism continues to be imbricated in multiple and intersecting crises. This paper argues that the roots of such crises and the manner of their unfolding do not merely ‘impact’ tourism but have been incubated within and shaped by the structural dynamics of tourism capital accumulation itself. This paper draws on a historical materialist epistemology and critical theorizat…
Urban Tourism Studies: A Transversal Research Agenda 275
The debate on tourism in cities, both academically and in practice, has for a long time taken place in relative isolation from urban studies. Tourism is mostly addressed as an external agent and economic force that puts pressure on cities rather than as an interdependent part of city systems. The recent debate on city touristification and excessive dependence on the visitor economy, as well as the associated processes of exclusion, and displaceme…
The politics of urban tourism (im)mobilities: Critical perspectives on inequalities and social justice
This editorial introduces a collection of papers that engage with the emerging political dimension of tourism in urban development issues from multiple transversal perspectives. It provides a brief overview of the evolution of tourism as a research object concerning urban studies and political economies of place. Subsequently, we cover the various epistemological ‘turns’ – and their corresponding critiques – which have drawn interest towards tour…
Policrisis y metamorfosis del capitalismo turístico
While the disruption caused by the pandemic has receded, tourism capitalism continues to be im- bricated in multiple and intersecting crises. This paper argues that the roots of such crises and the manner of their unfolding do not merely 'impact' tourism but have been incubated within and shaped by the structur- al dynamics of tourism capital accumulation itself. This paper draws on a historical materialist epistemology and critical theorization …
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
Over the last decade, the debate on tourism has become remarkably polarised. For some, tourism represents the stalwart of neoliberal capitalism, nested in strongly skewed power relations, characterized by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, which need taming. For others, it remains genuinely coherent with its original promise to be a ‘force for good’. This dichotomy is per se an eye-opener for critical reflections. Drawing on anthropology…
O regresso da Economia Política
O estreitamento da ciência económica limitou a capacidade para entender as economias. No ensino e na investigação escasseiam abordagens capazes de entender contextos e complexidades. É preciso uma nova visão que dê conta das mudanças e transformações na sociedade contemporânea. A ciência económica impregnou o debate público e tem vindo a influenciar a agenda política e a concepção de políticas públicas com noções como a eficiência dos mercados, o…
The social construction of touristification. Residents' perspectives on mobilities and moorings
One of the last decade's major challenges faced by tourist cities has been dominated by the increasing tourism flows that have harmed the quality of life of residents, the neighbourhood's sense of belonging, and the stakeholders' concerns regarding reliance on tourism. However, tourism mobilities are not the only drivers of structural change in cities. The advent of temporary residents, digital nomads, international students, short-stay expats, a…
The paradox of tourism extremes. Excesses and restraints in times of Covid-19
This paper seeks to highlight underlying issues of the tourism system that have led to tourism extremes of too much or too little tourism. Five phases are recognized that reflect different ways of dealing with too much tourism over time, after which the impact of a sudden lack of tourism is investigated in light of future renewal processes. This discussion highlights the remarkable capacity of the tourism industry to adjust to rapidly changing ci…
Handbook of Niche Tourism
Becoming centre: Tourism placemaking and space production in two neighborhoods in Barcelona
Over the last decades Barcelona has experienced social and economic transformations brought by the conversion of peripheral urban neighborhoods into tourist attractions. In this sense urban tourism has been the latest chapter of spatial reorganization to sustain capitalism within the global neoliberal environment in the Catalan city. In addition, the urban commodification process has expanded into not only central and historical districts, but al…
Travel and Tourism in the Age of Overtourism
Overtourism and degrowth: A social movements perspective
El papel de la economía informal en los proyectos agroecológicos durante el Covid-19
El 13 de marzo de 2020 España decretó el estado de alarma debido a la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19. En este escenario el sector agroalimentario tuvo que responder a una gran demanda en términos de producción y abastecimiento. Entre los diferentes modelos productivos dentro del sector están las pequeñas iniciativas agroecológicas que pretenden desarrollar estilos de vida campesinos por encima de la reproducción del capital. Las pequeñas in…
Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: Accentuating temporal overtourism
Global tourism growth is unprecedented. Consequently, this has elevated the sector as a key plank for economic development, and its utility is deeply embedded in political, economic and social-ecological discourse. Where the expansion of the sector leverages natural and cultural landscapes, this applies pressure to social and ecological underpinnings that if not reconciled, can become problematic. The way this plays out in Australia’s Shipwreck C…
Overtourism: Excesses, discontents and measures in travel and tourism
This book is concerned with the various dimensions of overtourism, including the social and economic impacts of excessive tourism and the management and policy measures to address it. The 10 chapters present case studies contributing to the overtourism discussion from diverse perspectives and contexts including urban, coastal and rural destinations. As an accompaniment to the detailed cases in this volume, four shorter exposés in the form of 'In …
Overtourism and Tourismphobia: A Journey Through Four Decades of Tourism Development, Planning and Local Concerns
Over the past four decades, while the increasing demand for mobility, leisure and unique experiences have been examined as key factors in the growth of tourism, the attendant growth paradigm has hi
Overtourism and degrowth: A Social Movements Perspective
Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon, rapidly evolving and underlined by what is evidently excessive visitation to tourist destinations. This is obvious in the seemingly uncontrolled and unplanned occurrence of urban overtourism in popular destinations and arguably a consequence of unregulated capital accumulation and growth strategies heavily associated with selling cities as tourism commodities. The vested interests of social movements has …
La Etnografía Como Herramienta De Innovación Docente. Primeros Pasos De Una Investigación Sobre Turismo Y Ocio
La etnografía ha sido considerada, tradicionalmente, como uno de los distintivos más importantes de ciencias sociales como la antropología y la sociología. Aunque en origen se aplicó para estudiar pequeñas comunidades de las denominadas 'sociedades primitivas', pronto mostró, paralelamente, su potencialidad en contextos urbanos, tal y como la Escuela de Chicago se encargó de demostrar. El paso del tiempo ha permitido que continúe mostrando su eno…
Overtourism, malestar social y turismofobia. Un debate controvertido
El artculo comparte algunas reflexiones sustradas de los debates que recientemente han irrumpido en la propaganda poltica, las agendas de los medios de comunicacin, las reivindicaciones de los movimientos sociales y las asociaciones vecinales. En primer lugar, se hace una reflexin partiendo de la hiptesis que el llamado overtourism tambin sinnimo de masificacin, saturacin o presin turstica, no es un fenmeno ni tan novedoso ni tan reciente. En seg…
Tourism, Real Estate Development and Depeasantisation in Latin America
Residential tourism transforms societies and rural economies. Among other changes, it converts agrarian land into urbanized land, and brings new agents into the land market (real estate investors, clients acquiring second homes, etc.). These two factors imply an increase in land prices that often gives way to a crisis of traditional agrarian activities and stimulates the emigration of the local population. The present article examines how this pr…
Otherness Anthropologies: Toward Ibero-American Anthropologies of Tourism
Political Economy of Tourism: A Critical Perspective
O turismo tem registado
Overtourism and degrowth: A Social Movements Perspective
Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon, rapidly evolving and underlined by what is evidently excessive visitation to tourist destinations. This is obvious in the seemingly uncontrolled and unplanned occurrence of urban overtourism in popular destinations and arguably a consequence of unregulated capital accumulation and growth strategies heavily associated with selling cities as tourism commodities. The vested interests of social movements has …
Becoming centre: Tourism placemaking and space production in two neighborhoods in Barcelona
Over the last decades Barcelona has experienced social and economic transformations brought by the conversion of peripheral urban neighborhoods into tourist attractions. In this sense urban tourism has been the latest chapter of spatial reorganization to sustain capitalism within the global neoliberal environment in the Catalan city. In addition, the urban commodification process has expanded into not only central and historical districts, but al…
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
Over the last decade, the debate on tourism has become remarkably polarised. For some, tourism represents the stalwart of neoliberal capitalism, nested in strongly skewed power relations, characterized by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, which need taming. For others, it remains genuinely coherent with its original promise to be a ‘force for good’. This dichotomy is per se an eye-opener for critical reflections. Drawing on anthropology…
Overtourism, malestar social y turismofobia. Un debate controvertido
El artculo comparte algunas reflexiones sustradas de los debates que recientemente han irrumpido en la propaganda poltica, las agendas de los medios de comunicacin, las reivindicaciones de los movimientos sociales y las asociaciones vecinales. En primer lugar, se hace una reflexin partiendo de la hiptesis que el llamado overtourism tambin sinnimo de masificacin, saturacin o presin turstica, no es un fenmeno ni tan novedoso ni tan reciente. En seg…
The social construction of touristification. Residents' perspectives on mobilities and moorings
One of the last decade's major challenges faced by tourist cities has been dominated by the increasing tourism flows that have harmed the quality of life of residents, the neighbourhood's sense of belonging, and the stakeholders' concerns regarding reliance on tourism. However, tourism mobilities are not the only drivers of structural change in cities. The advent of temporary residents, digital nomads, international students, short-stay expats, a…
Tourism, Real Estate Development and Depeasantisation in Latin America
Residential tourism transforms societies and rural economies. Among other changes, it converts agrarian land into urbanized land, and brings new agents into the land market (real estate investors, clients acquiring second homes, etc.). These two factors imply an increase in land prices that often gives way to a crisis of traditional agrarian activities and stimulates the emigration of the local population. The present article examines how this pr…
The politics of urban tourism (im)mobilities: Critical perspectives on inequalities and social justice
This editorial introduces a collection of papers that engage with the emerging political dimension of tourism in urban development issues from multiple transversal perspectives. It provides a brief overview of the evolution of tourism as a research object concerning urban studies and political economies of place. Subsequently, we cover the various epistemological ‘turns’ – and their corresponding critiques – which have drawn interest towards tour…
El papel de la economía informal en los proyectos agroecológicos durante el Covid-19
El 13 de marzo de 2020 España decretó el estado de alarma debido a la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19. En este escenario el sector agroalimentario tuvo que responder a una gran demanda en términos de producción y abastecimiento. Entre los diferentes modelos productivos dentro del sector están las pequeñas iniciativas agroecológicas que pretenden desarrollar estilos de vida campesinos por encima de la reproducción del capital. Las pequeñas in…
Precarious work and tourism labour regimes: Insights from Benidorm
Benidorm referred to as ‘the Mediterranean Manhattan’ due to its distinctive vertical urbanism is often regarded as an exemplary case of mass tourism. This paper critically examines the labour regime underpinning Benidorm’s tourism-driven economy, exploring the working conditions and the intergenerational schisms and differential lived experiences of work. Despite providing year-round jobs, Benidorm faces issues like informal economies and demogr…
Otherness Anthropologies: Toward Ibero-American Anthropologies of Tourism
Political Economy of Tourism: A Critical Perspective
O turismo tem registado
Political Economy of Tourism: A Critical Perspective
O turismo tem registado
Otherness Anthropologies: Toward Ibero-American Anthropologies of Tourism
Overtourism, malestar social y turismofobia. Un debate controvertido
El artculo comparte algunas reflexiones sustradas de los debates que recientemente han irrumpido en la propaganda poltica, las agendas de los medios de comunicacin, las reivindicaciones de los movimientos sociales y las asociaciones vecinales. En primer lugar, se hace una reflexin partiendo de la hiptesis que el llamado overtourism tambin sinnimo de masificacin, saturacin o presin turstica, no es un fenmeno ni tan novedoso ni tan reciente. En seg…
Tourism, Real Estate Development and Depeasantisation in Latin America
Residential tourism transforms societies and rural economies. Among other changes, it converts agrarian land into urbanized land, and brings new agents into the land market (real estate investors, clients acquiring second homes, etc.). These two factors imply an increase in land prices that often gives way to a crisis of traditional agrarian activities and stimulates the emigration of the local population. The present article examines how this pr…
Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: Accentuating temporal overtourism
Global tourism growth is unprecedented. Consequently, this has elevated the sector as a key plank for economic development, and its utility is deeply embedded in political, economic and social-ecological discourse. Where the expansion of the sector leverages natural and cultural landscapes, this applies pressure to social and ecological underpinnings that if not reconciled, can become problematic. The way this plays out in Australia’s Shipwreck C…
Overtourism: Excesses, discontents and measures in travel and tourism
This book is concerned with the various dimensions of overtourism, including the social and economic impacts of excessive tourism and the management and policy measures to address it. The 10 chapters present case studies contributing to the overtourism discussion from diverse perspectives and contexts including urban, coastal and rural destinations. As an accompaniment to the detailed cases in this volume, four shorter exposés in the form of 'In …
Overtourism and Tourismphobia: A Journey Through Four Decades of Tourism Development, Planning and Local Concerns
Over the past four decades, while the increasing demand for mobility, leisure and unique experiences have been examined as key factors in the growth of tourism, the attendant growth paradigm has hi
Overtourism and degrowth: A Social Movements Perspective
Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon, rapidly evolving and underlined by what is evidently excessive visitation to tourist destinations. This is obvious in the seemingly uncontrolled and unplanned occurrence of urban overtourism in popular destinations and arguably a consequence of unregulated capital accumulation and growth strategies heavily associated with selling cities as tourism commodities. The vested interests of social movements has …
La Etnografía Como Herramienta De Innovación Docente. Primeros Pasos De Una Investigación Sobre Turismo Y Ocio
La etnografía ha sido considerada, tradicionalmente, como uno de los distintivos más importantes de ciencias sociales como la antropología y la sociología. Aunque en origen se aplicó para estudiar pequeñas comunidades de las denominadas 'sociedades primitivas', pronto mostró, paralelamente, su potencialidad en contextos urbanos, tal y como la Escuela de Chicago se encargó de demostrar. El paso del tiempo ha permitido que continúe mostrando su eno…
Overtourism and degrowth: A social movements perspective
El papel de la economía informal en los proyectos agroecológicos durante el Covid-19
El 13 de marzo de 2020 España decretó el estado de alarma debido a la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19. En este escenario el sector agroalimentario tuvo que responder a una gran demanda en términos de producción y abastecimiento. Entre los diferentes modelos productivos dentro del sector están las pequeñas iniciativas agroecológicas que pretenden desarrollar estilos de vida campesinos por encima de la reproducción del capital. Las pequeñas in…
Travel and Tourism in the Age of Overtourism
The paradox of tourism extremes. Excesses and restraints in times of Covid-19
This paper seeks to highlight underlying issues of the tourism system that have led to tourism extremes of too much or too little tourism. Five phases are recognized that reflect different ways of dealing with too much tourism over time, after which the impact of a sudden lack of tourism is investigated in light of future renewal processes. This discussion highlights the remarkable capacity of the tourism industry to adjust to rapidly changing ci…
Handbook of Niche Tourism
Becoming centre: Tourism placemaking and space production in two neighborhoods in Barcelona
Over the last decades Barcelona has experienced social and economic transformations brought by the conversion of peripheral urban neighborhoods into tourist attractions. In this sense urban tourism has been the latest chapter of spatial reorganization to sustain capitalism within the global neoliberal environment in the Catalan city. In addition, the urban commodification process has expanded into not only central and historical districts, but al…
O regresso da Economia Política
O estreitamento da ciência económica limitou a capacidade para entender as economias. No ensino e na investigação escasseiam abordagens capazes de entender contextos e complexidades. É preciso uma nova visão que dê conta das mudanças e transformações na sociedade contemporânea. A ciência económica impregnou o debate público e tem vindo a influenciar a agenda política e a concepção de políticas públicas com noções como a eficiência dos mercados, o…
The social construction of touristification. Residents' perspectives on mobilities and moorings
One of the last decade's major challenges faced by tourist cities has been dominated by the increasing tourism flows that have harmed the quality of life of residents, the neighbourhood's sense of belonging, and the stakeholders' concerns regarding reliance on tourism. However, tourism mobilities are not the only drivers of structural change in cities. The advent of temporary residents, digital nomads, international students, short-stay expats, a…
Polycrisis and the metamorphosis of tourism capitalism
While the disruption caused by the COVID19 pandemic has receded, tourism capitalism continues to be imbricated in multiple and intersecting crises. This paper argues that the roots of such crises and the manner of their unfolding do not merely ‘impact’ tourism but have been incubated within and shaped by the structural dynamics of tourism capital accumulation itself. This paper draws on a historical materialist epistemology and critical theorizat…
Urban Tourism Studies: A Transversal Research Agenda 275
The debate on tourism in cities, both academically and in practice, has for a long time taken place in relative isolation from urban studies. Tourism is mostly addressed as an external agent and economic force that puts pressure on cities rather than as an interdependent part of city systems. The recent debate on city touristification and excessive dependence on the visitor economy, as well as the associated processes of exclusion, and displaceme…
The politics of urban tourism (im)mobilities: Critical perspectives on inequalities and social justice
This editorial introduces a collection of papers that engage with the emerging political dimension of tourism in urban development issues from multiple transversal perspectives. It provides a brief overview of the evolution of tourism as a research object concerning urban studies and political economies of place. Subsequently, we cover the various epistemological ‘turns’ – and their corresponding critiques – which have drawn interest towards tour…
Policrisis y metamorfosis del capitalismo turístico
While the disruption caused by the pandemic has receded, tourism capitalism continues to be im- bricated in multiple and intersecting crises. This paper argues that the roots of such crises and the manner of their unfolding do not merely 'impact' tourism but have been incubated within and shaped by the structur- al dynamics of tourism capital accumulation itself. This paper draws on a historical materialist epistemology and critical theorization …
Anti-tourism activism and the inconvenient truths about mass tourism, touristification and overtourism
Over the last decade, the debate on tourism has become remarkably polarised. For some, tourism represents the stalwart of neoliberal capitalism, nested in strongly skewed power relations, characterized by exclusionary and resource-degrading agency, which need taming. For others, it remains genuinely coherent with its original promise to be a ‘force for good’. This dichotomy is per se an eye-opener for critical reflections. Drawing on anthropology…
Precarious work and tourism labour regimes: Insights from Benidorm
Benidorm referred to as ‘the Mediterranean Manhattan’ due to its distinctive vertical urbanism is often regarded as an exemplary case of mass tourism. This paper critically examines the labour regime underpinning Benidorm’s tourism-driven economy, exploring the working conditions and the intergenerational schisms and differential lived experiences of work. Despite providing year-round jobs, Benidorm faces issues like informal economies and demogr…
Beyond the algorithm: Cooperative alternatives to platform capitalism in urban delivery workforces
Digital labour platforms have transformed urban delivery by expanding precarious labour regimes grounded in algorithmic management, outsourcing, and deregulation. In Barcelona, an emblematic setting of platform capitalism, these transformations have generated both intensified precarisation and new worker-led responses. Within this context, delivery cooperatives have emerged as organisational alternatives that seek to reconfigure digital labour ar…
Political science (18 works) · Tourism (16 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (15 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)