Decoding Degrowth & Boosterism in the Balearics w/ Macia Blazquez
On this episode of The End of Tourism Podcast, my guest is Macià Blázquez-Salom, a professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, who specializes in the Geography of Tourism, Territorial Planning, Sustainability and Degrowth. He utilizes his teaching and research activity in the environmental movement (and vice versa), and through his activism in the Grupo Balear de Ornitología y Defensa de la Naturaleza (GOB) and Alba Sud.
Show Notes
Macia’s Journey in the Balearics
The Beginning of Mass Tourism through Currency Devaluation
Contradictions in Mallorca
Cocoon Tourism in Spain
You Want to Work in the Balearics, You Have to Sleep in a Tent
Boosterism and Green Boosterism
Degrowth Definitions and Contradictions
Imagining Other Modes of Travel
Imagining Other Modes of Resistance
Homework
Transcript
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