Crafted Natures

A Beach as Seen by Its Fishermen

Bibliographic Data

ID9784867
AuthorsFrancisco J Maya-Rodríguez (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume104
Issue2
Pages247-257
Publication date2017-06-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueČeský lid (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-0794 • E-ISSN: 2570-9216
PublisherInstitute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ)
DOI10.21104/cl.2017.2.05
OpenAlexW2734975232
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Today, many European cities are still struggling to reinvent their development model in response to the effects of deindustrialization. It is in this context that nature, landscape and heritage are gaining more and more importance within leisure-and tourism-based urban models. This is the case for Cadiz, a small city in southern Spain where La Caleta, a small beach located downtown, has become one of the main tourist icons of the city. Due to its particular location, history and morphology, this small beach boasts a vast diversity of ichthyofauna, and is also an important local heritage site which functions customarily as one of the city's most emblematic, active and dynamic open public spaces. Drawing from the results of an ongoing doctoral thesis, this presentation deals with the local fishermen's notion of nature in order to understand how they make sense of the symbolic and material reconstruction which the beach has undergone, and the position they're assigned in the process. By doing so, I show how this discourse is influenced by urban conflicts derived from the adaptation process taken by the city on its transformation from an industrialto a tourism-based development model

Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Oceanography

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