Jordi Gascón-Gutiérrez
Biographic Data
| ID | 829372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordi Gascón-Gutiérrez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordi |
| FAMILY NAME | Gascón-Gutiérrez |
| SIGNATURE | GASCÓN-GUTIÉRREZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0947-614X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The feminization of agriculture and the empowerment of women in the Ecuadorian Andes
Repeasantization and synergy between community-based tourism and family farming
Mercados campesinos en tiempos de pandemia: De la resistencia a la adaptación en Cotacachi y Barcelona
Desde hace décadas, en el Sur y en el Norte Global han surgido iniciativas encaminadas a restablecer los mercados campesinos en zonas urbanas con el objetivo de que agricultores y agricultoras puedan vender la producción directamente al consumidor final para obtener toda la ganancia comercial. Esto se encuadra en una serie de estrategias dirigidas a alcanzar la autonomía de un circuito agroindustrial que impone precios y condiciones de producción…
Food Waste and Power Relations in the Agri-Food Chain. The Fruit Sector in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain)
Studies of food waste claim that its main causes are technological and logistical deficiencies in the first stages of the agri-food chain. The present article discusses this statement using a specific case as a starting point: the production of fruit in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). Since the 1980s, fruit production in this region has undergone a process of innovation and development. However, the agents who participate in the sector claim that the …
Understanding Agritourism: A Chayanovian analysis
Agritourism has generally been analysed in relation to the conventional economy and is therefore occasionally concluded to be inefficient. The contribution of the article is to show that agritourism must be understood from a different logic. Applying the Chayanovian concept of "differential optima", we obtain four conclusions: a) Agritourism can only be understood by recognizing the exceptionality of peasant logic; b) no income source is independ…
Turismo Doméstico de Diáspora y recuperación del ecosistema agrario (Teruel, España)
A partir de la década de 1970, muchos pueblos afectados por la despoblación se convirtieron en destinos turísticos de segunda residencia para sus emigrantes. Es un fenómeno que no ha dejado de crecer, pero inexplicablemente ha generado poca investigación. Y tampoco ha despertado el interés de los programas institucionales que luchan contra el declive demográfico rural. Sin embargo, este turismo (Turismo Doméstico de Diáspora) tiene consecuencias …
El proceso participativo en el turismo rural comunitario: Un análisis etnográfico
El Turismo Rural Comunitario (TRC) se ha presentado como un instrumento eficaz para contribuir al sostenimiento de las economías campesinas e indígenas. Pero una investigación crítica también ha identificado riesgos que pueden incrementar la vulnerabilidad de las sociedades anfitrionas. Estos análisis se han centrado en el impacto económico, sociocultural o medioambiental. Menos interés ha generado el papel de la población local en el diseño e im…
Indigeneity coalesced: The 2022 national strike in Ecuador
This article analyses the national strike in Ecuador in June 2022, which paralysed most of its cities and roads for 18 days. The uprising has relevance for understanding the historical path of Indigenous movements in Latin America. We address two main questions. First, we analyse the 2022 uprising in the context of the extended timeframe of Indigenous revolts stretching back to 1990, considering what this popular mobilization tells us about recen…
Community‐based tourism, peasant agriculture and resilience in the face of Covid‐19 in Peru
In the Andes, the diversification of economic activities among the peasant population is common practice. However, it is not a uniform strategy: as new employment and economic possibilities have emerged, the disparity of pluriactive strategies has multiplied. Based on a particular case study (Amantaní Island, Lake Titicaca), where community‐based tourism has developed strongly, we will compare the resilience of these strategies. The COVID‐19 pand…
Plastic in Lake Titicaca: Tourism and Management of Non-Biodegradable Waste in the Andes
Plastic has invaded the rural Andean landscape in recent decades. Its increase is due to the emergence of new consumption patterns, the absence of adequate waste management systems, and the persistence of a logic that incorporates waste into nature—which was appropriate when waste was biodegradable. However, the rural indigenous population is aware of plastic’s polluting effects. Tourism, which transmits urban and Western perceptions of cleanline…
La Tormenta Perfecta Que Acabó Con El Chancho: Cambios en La Percepción De La Limpieza en Los Andes Rurales
La sociedad rural e indgena tiene una concepcin de la limpieza diferente a la urbana y criolla, aunque la relacin de subordinacin entre ellas hace que las segundas transfieran sus valores a las primeras. A partir de un caso de estudio (la desaparicin del chancho en la Isla de Amantan, Lago Titicaca), planteamos que esta transferencia tiene dos aspectos. Por un lado, una transformacin en la concepcin de la dualidad pureza-contaminacin. Este cambio…
Más allá del mensaje de salvación: Los usos de la conversión religiosa en el Sur Andino peruano
The paper compares two periods in the history of a Quechua community (Amantaní Island, Titicaca Lake, Perú). They were moments of social conflict, in which the Seventh-day Adventist Church played a significant role. At each moment, different indigenous sectors, with different interests, and political and economic objectives, showed greater predisposition to religious change. This demonstrates the strategic nature of the conversion. But religious …
El turismo residencial como vector de cambio en las economías campesinas (Cotacachi, Ecuador)
El turismo se plantea como uno de los sectores que han de permitir la transformación de la matriz productiva en Ecuador. Sin embargo, el desarrollo de la industria turística requiere recursos naturales (tierra, agua), energéticos, humanos (mano de obra) y financieros (capital público y privado) que muchas veces ya están siendo empleados por otros sectores económicos, como el agrario, y los puede poner en riesgo. De hecho, el turismo participa en …
History of NGDO volunteer tourism in Spain: Depoliticisation, commodification, and downturn
This article analyses the historical evolution of volunteer tourism organised by non-governmental development organisations (NGDO) in Spain since they appeared in the 1980s as an instrument to support revolutionary processes and resistance in developing countries, mostly in the southern hemisphere. After subsequent depoliticisation, volunteer tourism sparked the interest of the business sector and conservative organisations. One of the most contr…
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…
Food waste: A Political Ecology Approach
Food waste is the loss of perfectly edible food products. It is a wide-ranging phenomenon: a substantial part of agricultural production is never consumed. The prevalent, most widespread paradigm regarding this phenomenon holds that it is due to inadequate logistics and technology, or to poor management of food on the part of end users. However, an analysis from a political ecology standpoint allows a different interpretation: the root of the pro…
El mundo es finito, también para el turismo. Del multiplicador turístico al conflicto redistributivo
La suposición de que el crecimiento turístico puede ser sostenible está muy difundida en determinados sectores académicos y organismos públicos. La teoría del multiplicador turístico, planteada por Archer y Owen a principios de los setenta, es uno de sus fundamentos. Sin embargo, esta premisa se enfrenta con una realidad cada vez más presente: el planeta y sus recursos son finitos. El desarrollo económico tiene límites naturales. El artículo pres…
Isleños y turistas. Propiedad comunitaria y territorialidad en sociedades indígenas
Grupo de investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granada. - Área de Antropología Social. Universidad de Jaén. - Laborarorio de Antropología Social y Cultural (HUM-472). Universidad de Almería. - Departamento de Filosofía II. Universidad de Granada
Turismo residencial y crisis de la agricultura campesina. Los casos de Vilcabamba y Cotacachi (Andes ecuatorianos)
las actividades econmicas primarias tradicionales como la agricultura campesina
Residential tourism and depeasantisation in the Ecuadorian Andes
International residential tourism is a recent phenomenon in the Andean area. However, in places where it has been established, rapid changes in social and economic structures have occurred. The Municipality of Cotacachi (Northern Ecuador) is paradigmatic. Having become a destination for American retirees, residential tourism has generated a sharp increase in the price of rural land and has decelerated a land market that once allowed young farmers…
Turismo comunitario y vinculación religiosa en los Andes Centrales
El turismo comporta cambios en los sistemas de creencias. Sin embargo, la relación entre\n\t\t\t\t turismo comunitario y cambio religioso ha sido poco estudiada. El artículo analiza este\n\t\t\t\t nexo a partir de un caso concreto: la Isla Amantaní, en el Sur de los Andes peruanos,\n\t\t\t\t de población indígena kichwa. En los ’70 y ‘80, el sector social más beneficiado por el\n\t\t\t\t turismo comunitario tendió a adscribirse a la Iglesia Adven…
Pro-Poor Tourism as a Strategy to Fight Rural Poverty: A Critique
Pro-poor tourism (PPT) is a development methodology that aims to use tourism as a tool for poverty reduction.PPThas been adopted by multilateral institutions, official development agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).PPTassumes an absolute definition of poverty that is based on net income. This definition allows the consideration of a tourism initiative as 'pro-poor' even though the income earned by the poor population may be margin…
The limitations of community-based tourism as an instrument of development cooperation: The value of the Social Vocation of the Territory concept
This paper contributes to the debate over the validity of community-based tourism (CBT) as a development and poverty-reduction strategy in the rural-peasant world. In this debate, researchers tend to compare and contrast specific experiences on which they have conducted field work. This implies limitations in the analysis: conclusions may be biased, leading to circular unresolved discussions. This paper introduces a structural analysis, to discov…
Residential tourism and depeasantisation in the Ecuadorian Andes
International residential tourism is a recent phenomenon in the Andean area. However, in places where it has been established, rapid changes in social and economic structures have occurred. The Municipality of Cotacachi (Northern Ecuador) is paradigmatic. Having become a destination for American retirees, residential tourism has generated a sharp increase in the price of rural land and has decelerated a land market that once allowed young farmers…
The limitations of community-based tourism as an instrument of development cooperation: The value of the Social Vocation of the Territory concept
This paper contributes to the debate over the validity of community-based tourism (CBT) as a development and poverty-reduction strategy in the rural-peasant world. In this debate, researchers tend to compare and contrast specific experiences on which they have conducted field work. This implies limitations in the analysis: conclusions may be biased, leading to circular unresolved discussions. This paper introduces a structural analysis, to discov…
Pro-Poor Tourism as a Strategy to Fight Rural Poverty: A Critique
Pro-poor tourism (PPT) is a development methodology that aims to use tourism as a tool for poverty reduction.PPThas been adopted by multilateral institutions, official development agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).PPTassumes an absolute definition of poverty that is based on net income. This definition allows the consideration of a tourism initiative as 'pro-poor' even though the income earned by the poor population may be margin…
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…
Repeasantization and synergy between community-based tourism and family farming
Indigeneity coalesced: The 2022 national strike in Ecuador
This article analyses the national strike in Ecuador in June 2022, which paralysed most of its cities and roads for 18 days. The uprising has relevance for understanding the historical path of Indigenous movements in Latin America. We address two main questions. First, we analyse the 2022 uprising in the context of the extended timeframe of Indigenous revolts stretching back to 1990, considering what this popular mobilization tells us about recen…
Plastic in Lake Titicaca: Tourism and Management of Non-Biodegradable Waste in the Andes
Plastic has invaded the rural Andean landscape in recent decades. Its increase is due to the emergence of new consumption patterns, the absence of adequate waste management systems, and the persistence of a logic that incorporates waste into nature—which was appropriate when waste was biodegradable. However, the rural indigenous population is aware of plastic’s polluting effects. Tourism, which transmits urban and Western perceptions of cleanline…
Understanding Agritourism: A Chayanovian analysis
Agritourism has generally been analysed in relation to the conventional economy and is therefore occasionally concluded to be inefficient. The contribution of the article is to show that agritourism must be understood from a different logic. Applying the Chayanovian concept of "differential optima", we obtain four conclusions: a) Agritourism can only be understood by recognizing the exceptionality of peasant logic; b) no income source is independ…
Turismo Doméstico de Diáspora y recuperación del ecosistema agrario (Teruel, España)
A partir de la década de 1970, muchos pueblos afectados por la despoblación se convirtieron en destinos turísticos de segunda residencia para sus emigrantes. Es un fenómeno que no ha dejado de crecer, pero inexplicablemente ha generado poca investigación. Y tampoco ha despertado el interés de los programas institucionales que luchan contra el declive demográfico rural. Sin embargo, este turismo (Turismo Doméstico de Diáspora) tiene consecuencias …
The limitations of community-based tourism as an instrument of development cooperation: The value of the Social Vocation of the Territory concept
This paper contributes to the debate over the validity of community-based tourism (CBT) as a development and poverty-reduction strategy in the rural-peasant world. In this debate, researchers tend to compare and contrast specific experiences on which they have conducted field work. This implies limitations in the analysis: conclusions may be biased, leading to circular unresolved discussions. This paper introduces a structural analysis, to discov…
Turismo comunitario y vinculación religiosa en los Andes Centrales
El turismo comporta cambios en los sistemas de creencias. Sin embargo, la relación entre\n\t\t\t\t turismo comunitario y cambio religioso ha sido poco estudiada. El artículo analiza este\n\t\t\t\t nexo a partir de un caso concreto: la Isla Amantaní, en el Sur de los Andes peruanos,\n\t\t\t\t de población indígena kichwa. En los ’70 y ‘80, el sector social más beneficiado por el\n\t\t\t\t turismo comunitario tendió a adscribirse a la Iglesia Adven…
Pro-Poor Tourism as a Strategy to Fight Rural Poverty: A Critique
Pro-poor tourism (PPT) is a development methodology that aims to use tourism as a tool for poverty reduction.PPThas been adopted by multilateral institutions, official development agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).PPTassumes an absolute definition of poverty that is based on net income. This definition allows the consideration of a tourism initiative as 'pro-poor' even though the income earned by the poor population may be margin…
Turismo residencial y crisis de la agricultura campesina. Los casos de Vilcabamba y Cotacachi (Andes ecuatorianos)
las actividades econmicas primarias tradicionales como la agricultura campesina
Residential tourism and depeasantisation in the Ecuadorian Andes
International residential tourism is a recent phenomenon in the Andean area. However, in places where it has been established, rapid changes in social and economic structures have occurred. The Municipality of Cotacachi (Northern Ecuador) is paradigmatic. Having become a destination for American retirees, residential tourism has generated a sharp increase in the price of rural land and has decelerated a land market that once allowed young farmers…
El mundo es finito, también para el turismo. Del multiplicador turístico al conflicto redistributivo
La suposición de que el crecimiento turístico puede ser sostenible está muy difundida en determinados sectores académicos y organismos públicos. La teoría del multiplicador turístico, planteada por Archer y Owen a principios de los setenta, es uno de sus fundamentos. Sin embargo, esta premisa se enfrenta con una realidad cada vez más presente: el planeta y sus recursos son finitos. El desarrollo económico tiene límites naturales. El artículo pres…
Isleños y turistas. Propiedad comunitaria y territorialidad en sociedades indígenas
Grupo de investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granada. - Área de Antropología Social. Universidad de Jaén. - Laborarorio de Antropología Social y Cultural (HUM-472). Universidad de Almería. - Departamento de Filosofía II. Universidad de Granada
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…
Food waste: A Political Ecology Approach
Food waste is the loss of perfectly edible food products. It is a wide-ranging phenomenon: a substantial part of agricultural production is never consumed. The prevalent, most widespread paradigm regarding this phenomenon holds that it is due to inadequate logistics and technology, or to poor management of food on the part of end users. However, an analysis from a political ecology standpoint allows a different interpretation: the root of the pro…
El turismo residencial como vector de cambio en las economías campesinas (Cotacachi, Ecuador)
El turismo se plantea como uno de los sectores que han de permitir la transformación de la matriz productiva en Ecuador. Sin embargo, el desarrollo de la industria turística requiere recursos naturales (tierra, agua), energéticos, humanos (mano de obra) y financieros (capital público y privado) que muchas veces ya están siendo empleados por otros sectores económicos, como el agrario, y los puede poner en riesgo. De hecho, el turismo participa en …
History of NGDO volunteer tourism in Spain: Depoliticisation, commodification, and downturn
This article analyses the historical evolution of volunteer tourism organised by non-governmental development organisations (NGDO) in Spain since they appeared in the 1980s as an instrument to support revolutionary processes and resistance in developing countries, mostly in the southern hemisphere. After subsequent depoliticisation, volunteer tourism sparked the interest of the business sector and conservative organisations. One of the most contr…
La Tormenta Perfecta Que Acabó Con El Chancho: Cambios en La Percepción De La Limpieza en Los Andes Rurales
La sociedad rural e indgena tiene una concepcin de la limpieza diferente a la urbana y criolla, aunque la relacin de subordinacin entre ellas hace que las segundas transfieran sus valores a las primeras. A partir de un caso de estudio (la desaparicin del chancho en la Isla de Amantan, Lago Titicaca), planteamos que esta transferencia tiene dos aspectos. Por un lado, una transformacin en la concepcin de la dualidad pureza-contaminacin. Este cambio…
Más allá del mensaje de salvación: Los usos de la conversión religiosa en el Sur Andino peruano
The paper compares two periods in the history of a Quechua community (Amantaní Island, Titicaca Lake, Perú). They were moments of social conflict, in which the Seventh-day Adventist Church played a significant role. At each moment, different indigenous sectors, with different interests, and political and economic objectives, showed greater predisposition to religious change. This demonstrates the strategic nature of the conversion. But religious …
Community‐based tourism, peasant agriculture and resilience in the face of Covid‐19 in Peru
In the Andes, the diversification of economic activities among the peasant population is common practice. However, it is not a uniform strategy: as new employment and economic possibilities have emerged, the disparity of pluriactive strategies has multiplied. Based on a particular case study (Amantaní Island, Lake Titicaca), where community‐based tourism has developed strongly, we will compare the resilience of these strategies. The COVID‐19 pand…
Plastic in Lake Titicaca: Tourism and Management of Non-Biodegradable Waste in the Andes
Plastic has invaded the rural Andean landscape in recent decades. Its increase is due to the emergence of new consumption patterns, the absence of adequate waste management systems, and the persistence of a logic that incorporates waste into nature—which was appropriate when waste was biodegradable. However, the rural indigenous population is aware of plastic’s polluting effects. Tourism, which transmits urban and Western perceptions of cleanline…
Food Waste and Power Relations in the Agri-Food Chain. The Fruit Sector in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain)
Studies of food waste claim that its main causes are technological and logistical deficiencies in the first stages of the agri-food chain. The present article discusses this statement using a specific case as a starting point: the production of fruit in Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). Since the 1980s, fruit production in this region has undergone a process of innovation and development. However, the agents who participate in the sector claim that the …
Understanding Agritourism: A Chayanovian analysis
Agritourism has generally been analysed in relation to the conventional economy and is therefore occasionally concluded to be inefficient. The contribution of the article is to show that agritourism must be understood from a different logic. Applying the Chayanovian concept of "differential optima", we obtain four conclusions: a) Agritourism can only be understood by recognizing the exceptionality of peasant logic; b) no income source is independ…
Turismo Doméstico de Diáspora y recuperación del ecosistema agrario (Teruel, España)
A partir de la década de 1970, muchos pueblos afectados por la despoblación se convirtieron en destinos turísticos de segunda residencia para sus emigrantes. Es un fenómeno que no ha dejado de crecer, pero inexplicablemente ha generado poca investigación. Y tampoco ha despertado el interés de los programas institucionales que luchan contra el declive demográfico rural. Sin embargo, este turismo (Turismo Doméstico de Diáspora) tiene consecuencias …
El proceso participativo en el turismo rural comunitario: Un análisis etnográfico
El Turismo Rural Comunitario (TRC) se ha presentado como un instrumento eficaz para contribuir al sostenimiento de las economías campesinas e indígenas. Pero una investigación crítica también ha identificado riesgos que pueden incrementar la vulnerabilidad de las sociedades anfitrionas. Estos análisis se han centrado en el impacto económico, sociocultural o medioambiental. Menos interés ha generado el papel de la población local en el diseño e im…
Indigeneity coalesced: The 2022 national strike in Ecuador
This article analyses the national strike in Ecuador in June 2022, which paralysed most of its cities and roads for 18 days. The uprising has relevance for understanding the historical path of Indigenous movements in Latin America. We address two main questions. First, we analyse the 2022 uprising in the context of the extended timeframe of Indigenous revolts stretching back to 1990, considering what this popular mobilization tells us about recen…
The feminization of agriculture and the empowerment of women in the Ecuadorian Andes
Repeasantization and synergy between community-based tourism and family farming
Mercados campesinos en tiempos de pandemia: De la resistencia a la adaptación en Cotacachi y Barcelona
Desde hace décadas, en el Sur y en el Norte Global han surgido iniciativas encaminadas a restablecer los mercados campesinos en zonas urbanas con el objetivo de que agricultores y agricultoras puedan vender la producción directamente al consumidor final para obtener toda la ganancia comercial. Esto se encuadra en una serie de estrategias dirigidas a alcanzar la autonomía de un circuito agroindustrial que impone precios y condiciones de producción…
Geography (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Humanities (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Tourism (7 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Business (4 works)