Turistificação e patrimonialização: experienciando o centro histórico de Pirenópolis, Goiás

Abstract

Tourism as an economic activity finds in the heritage a support for the possibility of a market exploration and, associated, they tend to represent hegemonic processes of subjectification of spaces. Therefore, this paper sought to learn about tourism and heritage in the production and experience in the spaces of the historical center of Pirenópolis, Goiás. For this purpose, an immersion was made in part of the historical center of Pirenópolis, in order to expose how the processes of production and transformation of the spaces control and shape the experience of its practitioners. The intention was to approach the association between heritage and tourism in the subjectification of the spaces, analyzing how they transform it in the face of the market reality, and thereby commoditize the experiences of its practitioners. To this end, it was inspired by theories and examples of empirical practices of living spaces that developed around the world in different places, with an emphasis on research methods and techniques used in human and social sciences, such as ethnography and mainly autoethnography. Through the exercise of critical experience in the historical center of Pirenópolis, using reflective walks, it was possible to apprehend the relationships between practitioners and the spaces created and/or transformed to receive them. The physical and sociological implications of touristification and patrimonialization in the subjectification of spaces were found.