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- Ruínas, tecnologia e atores na construção da rede das Aldeias Históricas de PortugalPublication . Gregório, M. J.; Brito Henriques, Eduardo; Sarmento, JoãoO Programa das Aldeias Históricas é, em Portugal, um dos mais reconhecidos exemplos de intervenção integrada de desenvolvimento do interior baseado na valorização dos recursos patrimoniais. Aparentemente, a sua finalidade é recuperar o património e, a partir dele, encontrar condições de futuro para lugares que foram abandonados. O objetivo deste artigo é mostrar, usando a Teoria do Ator-Rede como método de análise e quadro teórico, que a ruína, longe de ser o inimigo que se pretende erradicar, é um elemento fundamental na implementação do Programa, que interage com os humanos e a tecnologia – na forma de máquinas, cabos e fios, estruturas de engenharia, e papel impresso – em todo este processo.
- Internal stakeholders perspectives in a cultural event: the case of noc noc Guimarães, PortugalPublication . Ferreira, Marisa R.; Sarmento, JoãoGiven the significant impact that cultural events may have in local communities and their inherent organization complexity, it is important to understand their specificities. Most of the times cultural events disregard marketing and often marketing is distant from art. Thus an analysis of an internal marketing perspective might bring significant returns to the organization of such an event. This paper considers the three editions (2011, 2012 and 2013) of a cultural event – Noc Noc – organized by a local association in the city of Guimarães, Portugal. Its format is based in analogous events, as Noc Noc intends to convert everyday spaces (homes, commercial outlets and a number of other buildings) into cultural spaces, organized and transformed by artists, hosts and audiences. By interviewing a sample of people (20) who have hosted this cultural event, sometimes doubling as artists, and by experiencing the three editions of the event, this paper analyses how the internal stakeholders understand this particular cultural event, analyzing specifically their motivations, ways of acting and participating, as well as their relationship with the public, with the organization of the event and with art in general. Results support that the motivations of artists and hosts must be identified in a timely and appropriate moment, as well as their views of this particular cultural event, in order to keep them participating, since low budget cultural events such as this one may have a key role in small cities.
- Portuguese Geography, tropics and late colonialism: proposal and results of a dossierPublication . Oliveira, Francisco Roque de; Sarmento, JoãoDespite some partial studies published in recent years, a comprehensive reading of Portuguese Geography has not yet been carried out in order to understand the role of geographic discourse in “colonial context” and the way in which this same discourse seems to have been reassessed, as the international climate around Portuguese colonial policy from the mid-1950s onwards aggravated (Pimenta et al., 2011; Oliveira and Paiva, 2019; Sarmento, 2019). Postcolonial theory teaches us that colonization not only transformed the colonized world, but also profoundly transformed colonizing societies, thus placing the question of colonialism at the heart of European modernity (Driver, 2006; Butlin, 2009). This means that we departed to this dossier pretending, as a fundamental aim, to gather a set of critical analyses on some of the most representative discourses and practices of Portuguese Geography of the time, on the “tropical world”. In doing so, we propose to contribute to the epistemological renewal of the discipline itself, which, in our view, and in line with Driver (2006), Bruneau (2008), Jazeel (2014), Clayton and Kumar (2019) and Clayton (2020), has not yet sufficiently reflected on this very complex moment in its history.
- A experiência do abandono documentado em vídeoPublication . Sarmento, João; Pereira, RuiÉ recorrente um olhar que associa o abandono e arruinamento urbano a locais problemáticos e marginalizados da cidade, que aguardam pela oportunidade de serem intervencionados e devolvidos à esfera de uso público. A nossa tarefa principal foi a de tentar desconstruir discursos preconcebidos e genéricos sobre o abandono, contrariando o distanciamento e o olhar superficial próprios de quem “vê as ruínas de fora”. Procuramos entender o abandono através das experiências humanas que proporciona, da relação entre os espaços arruinados e as pessoas que deles se apropriam. O objetivo foi contribuir para o reconhecimento de novas leituras, muitas vezes enunciadoras do desafio que é a integração destes locais no planeamento da cidade perfurada.
- Urban Ruins: scenarios for thein-between, Guimarães, PortugalPublication . Sarmento, João; Labastida, Marta; Pereira, Rui
- Overland tourism in the Istanbul to Cairo route: ‘real holidays’ or McDonaldised niche tourism?Publication . Sarmento, João; Brito-Henriques, EduardoSince the beginning of the 1990s tourism scholars and academics have been claiming that tourism has changed. By and large the mid-1980s is generally considered the moment when that transformation occurred, or, at least, when it became noticeable. Urry (1990), one of earliest theorists who lead this debate, built an all-inclusive theory which frames the new trends in the tourism industry in the broader context of social transformations in the ‘Late Capitalism’ period, and consequently, tourism has been repeatedly considered to have changed because new forms of post-Fordist (or post-Modern) consumption have emerged [...]
- Tourists’ walking rhythms: ‘doing’ the Tunis Medina, TunisiaPublication . Sarmento, JoãoThe contemporary medina of Tunis is intimately connected to the various urban development stages of the city at large. Despite its UNESCO status and undisputable attractions, the medina is peripheral to Tunisian tourism development. Yet its maze of streets is walked on a daily basis by numerous tourists, who bring flair, choreographies and rhythms which also constitute the medina. While there are a growing number of studies focusing on tourists’ movements, using technologies that allow for accurate mapping of timespace trajectories, I argue that we have much to learn from the embodied ways in which tourists move in an unknown terrain. Inspired by Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, this paper explores tourists’ rhythms and modes of walking, including their performances, body languages, stops and advances, and gaze interactions. Drawing on a combination of mobile methodologies, interviews and online comments, I argue that tourists engage in many different walking rhythms, which shift quickly according to the situation. It is the complex manner in which tourist bodies, rhythms and urban forms intersect within the contemporary city that contributes to the construction of the city itself.
- Tourism in the global south: heritages, identities and developmentPublication . Sarmento, João; Brito-Henriques, EduardoThis book intends to discuss new research ideas on the tourism impacts in the Global South, focusing namely on the construction and transformation of landscapes through tourism, on issues of identity friction and cultural change, and on the responsibility of tourism on poverty reduction and sustainable development. A proper analysis of tourism impacts always needs an interdisciplinary approach. Geography can conduct a stimulating job since it relates culture and nature, society and environment, space, economy and politics, but a single discipline cannot push our understanding very far without intersecting it with other realms of knowledge. So, this is a book that aims at a multidisciplinary debate, celebrating the diversity of disciplinary boundaries, and which includes texts from and people from a range of different backgrounds such as Geography, Tourism, Anthropology, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Linguistics and Economics.
- Urban ruination: suspended projects in Guimarães, PortugalPublication . Sarmento, João; Brito-Henriques, Eduardo; Morgado, Paulo
- Apropriações e usos de ruínas e terrenos vagos: metodologias e resultados do projetoPublication . Sarmento, JoãoApresentação realizada no Seminário final do projeto NoVOID. Reúne o trabalho realizado entre 2016 e 2019 em 8 ruínas e espaços vazios localizados nas cidades de Guimarães e Vizela. Enquadrado no projeto NoVOID, este estudo procurou compreender os significados socio-culturais de espaços urbanos abandonados, a sua vida social (apropriações e usos) e a sua transformação material e simbólica (re-significação) através das várias performances que suportam e de que fazem parte. Constitui a oportunidade de fixar o trabalho desenvolvido e construir um arquivo para memória futura sobre interrupções temporárias no seio de cidades continuadas em permanente metamorfose.
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