Art, politics, memory: Tactical Tourism and the route of anarchism in Barcelona

Current sociological theories and issues in tourism

“…But performativities do not only (re)produce social entities, they can also critically counter hegemonically imposed public sites or attractions, especially through acts of resistance (e.g. Obrador Pons & Carter, 2010). The implications of the performativity perspective for conventional conceptions of "destinations" and "attractions," and for the study of tourist images, are far-reaching, but have not yet been worked out sufficiently in contemporary tourism studies.…”

How to Become a “Real Chicagoan” in No Time: The Promise and Pedagogy of Walking Tourism

“…18,27 Walking tourism with a political message may even take up the same questions about cultural constructivism as Bruner and act as a space of dissent against hegemonic narratives of place. 35 Even walking tour guides who partner with institutions of cultural production are often independent contractors who play at the boundaries of cool authentication and socially sanctioned cultural narratives. 21 Recently, scholars have asked, with some alarm, why tourists continue leave home when cultural amenities and opportunities are often available in their home cities.…”

“…These tours turn urban features that may seem ordinary or homogenized into moments of localized meaning. 35 It is not the showcasing of simulation that makes walking tourism interesting, it is the pedagogical nature of 'becoming local' which promises the tourist something they cannot get from theme parks: it is this promise and pedagogy that entices walking tourists to leave home, even in the post-modern era.…”

Volume 14, Issue 2

“…In fact, this is evident from our combined bioinformatics and molecular simulation studies on Thermus thermophilus leucyl-tRNA synthetase (Tt LeuRS) and Ec prolyl-tRNA synthetase (ProRS), where we observed that the thermally coupled and evolutionarily constrained (coevolved and conserved) residues facilitate coupled-domain dynamics. 34,35 Therefore, in the present work we have employed the recently developed bioinformatics-based Statistical Thermal Coupling Analysis (STCA) method 35 to explore the molecular mechanism of inter-domain communications in Ec MetRS. In addition, we aimed to explore if the dynamical features obtained from the coarsegrained simulations and all-atom molecular dynamics simulations could produce comparable results.…”