Contents

 

 

 

 

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

 

1 Urban tourism and its discontents: an introduction

JOHANNES NOVY AND CLAIRE COLOMB

2 No conflict? Discourses and management of tourism-related tensions in Paris

MARIA GRAVARI-BARBAS AND SÉBASTIEN JACQUOT

3 The selling (out) of Berlin and the de- and re-politicization of urban tourism in Europe’s ‘Capital of Cool’

JOHANNES NOVY

4 Touristification and awakening civil society in post-socialist Prague

MICHAELA PIXOVÁ AND JAN SLÁDEK

5 Density wars in Silicon Beach: the struggle to mix new spaces for toil, stay and play in Santa Monica, California

DEIKE PETERS

6 Contesting China’s tourism wave: identity politics, protest and the rise of the Hongkonger city state movement

DANIEL GARRETT

7 From San Francisco’s ‘Tech Boom 2.0’ to Valparaíso’s UNESCO World Heritage Site: resistance to tourism gentrification from a comparative political perspective

FLORIAN OPILLARD

8 Tourism provision as protest in ‘post-conflict’ Belfast

EMILY BERESKIN

9 The No Grandi Navi campaign: protests against cruise tourism in Venice

MICHELE VIANELLO

10 Favela tourism: negotiating visitors, socio-economic benefits, image and representation in pre-Olympics Rio de Janeiro

ANNE-MARIE BROUDEHOUX

11 Politics as early as possible: democratizing the Olympics by contesting Olympic bids

JOHN LAUERMANN

12 Attracting international tourism through mega-events and the birth of a conflict culture in Belo Horizonte

LUCIA CAPANEMA ALVARES, ALTAMIRO S. MOL BESSA, THIAGO PINTO BARBOSA AND KARINA MACHADO DE CASTRO SIMÃO

13 The right to Gaudí: what can we learn from the commoning of Park Güell, Barcelona?

ALBERT ARIAS-SANS AND ANTONIO PAOLO RUSSO

14 Of artisans, antique dealers and ambulant vendors: culturally stratified conflicts in Buenos Aires’ historic centre

JACOB LEDERMAN

15 The abrupt rise (and fall) of creative entrepreneurs: socio-economic change, the visitor economy and social conflict in a traditional neighbourhood of Shanghai

NON ARKARAPRASERTKUL

16 The living versus the dead in Singapore: contesting the authoritarian tourist city

JASON D. LUGER

17 ‘Fantasies of antithesis’: assessing Hamburg’s Gängeviertel as a tourist attraction

NINA FRAESER

 

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