The work is framed within the geographical rethinking of spatiality within narrative theories, in relation to geohumanities interest in creative writing. The main aim of the research is to experiment ...with a new geo-cultural approach to investigate pilgrims' cultural narratives from the book Camino Voices by Iain Dryden (2015), an original collection of pilgrims’ comments which are accompanied by a series of drawings by the author. Through a qualitative methodology based on the human senses as the interpretative criteria, I suggest an approximation to sensuous research in the social sciences in order to reflect upon the multisensory experience of the Camino. As a result, I discuss and propose a set of sensescapes that conduce to the conceptualisation of a sensuous Camino geography, by which I mean a new cultural interpretation of the emotions, feelings and sensations produced throughout the experience of the Camino.
•Sensescapes stimulate pilgrims' and readers' creative imagination.•Sensescapes suggest a reflection on the relationship ‘Camino vs. pilgrims’ bodies'.•Sensuous Camino geography is a new cultural interpretation of the Camino.•Emotions, feelings and sensations produce the soft dimension of the Camino.
Este texto trata de caminar por tanguá benach,camino ancestral del pueblo indígena Camëntsá. La autora puso las huellas; trata de organizar la palabra, narrar, otra forma de andar y hacer camino. ...Mientras va, viene, y en devuélvase está el misterio. Es una etnografía del camino, de la vida y de la muerte, de los ancestros y de la tierra de la que somos; es una etnografía de los andares.
This article analyzes the recent initiatives about the Kanon certification concerning the Orthodox world and, more precisely, Greece. It questions the role that the monastic products, but also the ...religious certifications (like halal, kosher and the Catholic brand Monastic), play in a new approach of economic realities. It examines the use of the religious imaginary by Greek advertising. The aim is to show how the recent demand for monastic products is linked to restoration promises of the economic equilibrium, consumerism becoming in this context not only an experience but also an act of engagement. Another issue treated in this framework, the possibility for the religious domain to redefine the priorities and principles of commercial exchanges.
The Camino de Santiago, the Route of Saint James, the Way--all describe a pilgrimage with multiple routes that pass through Spain and end at the Cathedral of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela. In ...the 21st century, this medieval tradition is seeing a revival with travelers, both spiritual and secular, who embrace it for different reasons. Offering insight into the personal journeys of contemporary pilgrims, this collection of new essays explores cultural expressions of the Camino from the perspective of literature, film and graphic novels, and looks beyond Spain and the "Caminoisation" of other historical routes.
Santa María de Vilavella constituye el caso poco conocido de un burgo del Camino Francés, que surgió al abrigo de un monasterio altomedieval relacionado con la acogida de peregrinos. Tras alcanzar en ...el siglo XII un cierto grado de desarrollo asociado al trasiego del Camino, comenzó su decadencia como centro viario y comercial cuando en las primeras décadas del siglo XIII el rey Alfonso IX de León creó la nueva puebla de Triacastela, trasladando la población a otro emplazamiento más ventajoso enclavado sobre una encrucijada de la misma ruta. Mientras que la nueva fundación se afianzó con éxito como cabecera territorial, constituyendo un núcleo configurado por el eje viario y por la cerca que lo defendía, el antiguo burgo de Santa María mantuvo su caserío agrupado al pie de la antigua iglesia monasterial, evolucionando como una aldea más del ámbito rural gallego, toda vez que su principal dedicación quedó revertida a la explotación de los recursos agropecuarios.
gl Santa María de Vilavella constitúe o caso escasamente coñecido dun burgo do Camiño Francés, que xurdiu ao abrigo dunha comunidade monástica altomedieval relacionada coa asistencia aos peregrinos. Despois de alcanzar certo grao de desenvolvemento no século XII, asociado ao tránsito do Camiño de Santiago, o seu declive como centro comercial e viario comezou cando o rei Afonso IX de León estableceu a nova entidade de poboación de Triacastela nas primeiras décadas do século XIII nunha encrucillada xacobea próxima. Entrementres Triacastela se afianzaba coma un núcleo camiñeiro e amurallado, cabeceira territorial, o antigo burgo de Santa María mantiña o seu casarío agrupado na contorna da antiga igrexa monástica, evolucionando como unha aldea máis da paisaxe rural galega, centrada na explotación primaria dos recursos agropecuarios.
En este artículo abordo la performance del colectivo LASTESIS Un violador en tu camino (2019) e interpreto el tránsito entre lo invisible y lo visible, referido en la performance en las acciones de ...no ver y luego ver. Asimismo, en diálogo con esas referencias, analizo las posibles lecturas que se pueden establecer sobre el uso de la venda que cubre los ojos de las participantes. En este recorrido busco revisar cómo estos elementos de la performance sugieren un agenciamiento basado en imágenes contravisuales y en la ruptura con el foco de la mirada tradicional y hegemónica levantado y mantenido por el régimen escópico actual.
•We interrogate the role of tourism as it is accounted for in the Bilbao Effect.•We show that there was more flows of tourism from other sources.•We argue that this mix of tourism is not easy to ...emulate for other cities.•We show how the Camino heritage route relates to the Bilbao Effect.
Many of the world’s post-industrial cities have sought to emulate the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s (GMB) transformation of Bilbao into a city of culture. Yet the Bilbao Effect is a paradox: why is it that despite much replication of its defining features there is still only one Bilbao Effect? This paper steps back from the quick fix policy narrative of the Bilbao Effect to reflect critically on the complex coordinates of the GMB’s success as a singular tourism magnet; notably how Bilbao and the Basque Country region played a far bigger role in it than is commonly perceived. It identifies a variety of significant and commensurate cultural tourism developments already in place before the GMB was built, not least the Camino de Santiago de Compostela and San Sebastian, that both augmented and enriched tourism to Bilbao subsequently. It argues that these must now be recognised as a key part of the Bilbao Effect and are of an order and quality not easily transferred to other cities.
In Contemplating the Camino Brendan McManus SJ prepares you spiritually, emotionally and practically for the task of walking the Camino de Santiago. Drawing on his own experience of this walk, and ...his background in Ignatian spirituality, he develops an approach to the Camino inspired by the teachings of Ignatius Loyola. Focusing on the balance of grief and joy in our lives, and the changes in our own emotions, Contemplating the Camino is a key to the challenges and triumphs of pilgrimage.
This article addresses the concept of landscape architecture to understand contemporary Latin American architectural thought through a transdisciplinary look at the case study of the Camino Viejo or ...Camino Milenario, Tanguá Benach. Located in southern Colombia, the trail corresponds to one of the axes of exchange in the Amazonian foothills, between the biomes and cultures of the Andes, and the myths and ethnobotanical knowledge of the Amazon jungle. On the trail, walking is building, it is both a material and symbolic experience, the relational expression of an architecture that is produced over time, that makes life possible and that can become life itself. Thus, landscape architecture invites a constant reflection regarding the symbolic dimension of space and landscape for our societies.
Este artículo aborda el concepto de la arquitectura del paisaje, para entender el pensamiento arquitectónico latinoamericano contemporáneo mediante una mirada transdisciplinar del caso del Camino Viejo o Camino Milenario, Tanguá Benach. Ubicado al sur de Colombia, el camino corresponde con uno de los ejes de intercambio del piedemonte amazónico, entre los biomas y culturas de la cordillera de los Andes, y los mitos y saberes etnobotánicos de la selva del Amazonas. En el camino, caminar es construir, es a la vez una experiencia material y simbólica, la expresión relacional de una arquitectura que es producida en el tiempo, que posibilita la vida y que puede llegar a ser la vida misma. Así, la arquitectura del paisaje invita a una reflexión constante respecto a la dimensión simbólica del espacio y el paisaje para nuestras sociedades.