Ainda acerca das reflexões sobre a situação teórica das ciências sociais: uma crítica ao turismo enquanto fenômeno

Abstract

This thesis has as its starting point a reflection on the statement "the human being moves", associated with tourism. In face of this reflection, it became necessary to organize an overview of theoretical production in the Tourism epistemology. This panorama allowed us to observe the limits and disputes in the theoretical field, expressed in the multiplicity of epistemological approaches, and exposing the conditions of the intellectual work/labor division. This analysis highlighted the recurrence of the tourism binomial/phenomenon implied in an idealistic approach to knowledge production. The reflection incited an internal criticism through the methodological analytical theoretical device of materialistic french Discourse Analysis. For this analysis, basic sections were selected which reformulations required the articulation of the concept of interdiscourse, and its modes of functioning, pre-constructed and discourse-transverse. These concepts open the possibility to discuss the use of the notion of the phenomenon, as a rhetorical resource, and tourism as a practice of transformation of destinations (the place) into destinations (the tourist imaginary about the place). This composition can defocus the tourist subject and places a practice that exposes the contradictions in social formation as the engine of the process. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]