Tourist alienation: spatial alienation in gentrification and touristification studies

Ibán Díaz-Parra

Chapter 4 in Handbook on Tourism Gentrification, 2025, pp 56-70 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter proposes alienation as a concept that synthesises different forms of malaise in residents, visitors and workers, because of gentrification and/or touristification. Alienation points to the negative consequences of gentrification and touristification, emphasising the psychological and social unrest provoked by these urban processes, including but not limited to the well-established relationship between gentrification, touristification and displacement. This contribution mobilises, on the one hand, the Marxist theoretical corpus on alienation and, on the other, recent literature on gentrification and touristification processes. The chapter concludes that the spatialisation of alienation theory offers a critical avenue for understanding the impact of gentrification and touristification on life within both the sphere of labour and the sphere of reproduction. Displacement is an extreme expression of alienation; a dispossession of the space one inhabits. However, gentrification and touristification give rise to an experience of alienation that goes beyond residential displacement.

Keywords: Alienation; Gentrification; Touristification; Displacement; Dispossession; Marxism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327348
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