Construcción de imaginario turístico en revistas infantiles en el Chile mesocrático

The analysis of children's magazines in Chile in the aftermath of the crisis of the nitrates highlights the importance that the creation of a tourist imaginary had in the reconfiguration of the national identity and its assimilation by the country's younger population. The magazine El Cabrito, born in a context of profound changes and with the purpose of educating its readers and readers, was the object of such analysis. The pages of the magazine display the map of the nation to be explored by children, in whom it is intended to forge a tourist imaginary. This imaginary is anchored in scenic landmarks, in emblematic towns of typical Chilean traditional activities, in historical figures, in the metropolitan monumentality, and by the icons of progress. The tourist imaginary provides a bridge between traditional countryfolk practices that have lost their validity, the constitution of urban girls and boys as tourist subjects, and the reconfiguration of national identity. In this exercise, it is evident that the magazine articulates the symbols of modernity with the preservation of the values of the elites while trying to integrate the middle classes into a nation built upon the denial of indigenous peoples

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