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GREEN CULTURES FOR TOURISM GOVERNANCE - 44152-MOD1

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ID:
44152-MOD1
Dettaglio:
SSD: Population Studies, Ethnography and Anthropology Duration: 36 CFU: 6
Located in:
BERGAMO
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Course Details:
PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF TOURISM SYSTEMS - 44-270-EN/ENVIRONMENTAL AND DIGITAL STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unibg.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...
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Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

Students learn to frame the present environmental crisis in relation with tourism issues. They learn how to analyze the present society using tools from anthropology, philosophy and also natural sciences, focusing on criticalities emerging from travelling, consumption, cultural preservation, environmental preservation, social sustainability.

At the end of the course, students are capable to interpret conceptually complex maps identifying the power relations among the different actors in the tourism sector and in the related societies.

Students are able can discuss the many implications of travelling and their impact on the environment; they can suggest and sketch different types of cultural/ecological managing strategies; they can manage travel issues contextualizing their proposals in a complex framework.


Course Prerequisites

Good knowledge of global history and geography


Teaching Methods

Lessons with support of audio and video materials.

Class discussions on resources shared via Moodle,

Presentation and analysis of Case studies.


Assessment Methods

The exam consists in a written test on the Syllabus texts.


For Students attending all lessons:

During the course, some optional intermediate exercises will be proposed on topics covered in class and discussed in the texts of the program. The positive evaluation of all the exercises can replace the written test.


Contents

The course provides theoretical and practical tools from the Anthropology of the Contemporary to apply to sustainable tourism contexts:

1. Theoretical bases in Anthropology

Concepts of Culture and Identity, Travel and Migration, Environment and Habitat. Dualism Nature/Culture.The privileged position of the ethnographer. Hegemony and Subalternity in the relation observer/observed.

2. Study of the Anthropology in a global world.

The end of colonization and the development of tourism as a reward: UNWTO. Non/sustainable tourism. The role of tourism in the Anthropocene. The Great Acceleration. The UNESCO-COMPACT model. Local communities and cultural complexity.

3. Theoretical bases in Complexity

Complexity in Natural and Social Sciences. Non-linearity and fractals. Reasoning with metaphors. Examples of Anthropocenic crises. Environment as a non-linear system. Emerging local solutions.

 


Online Resources

  • E-learning
  • Leganto - Reading lists

More information

The course takes place in the 2nd sub-term.


Degrees

Degrees

PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF TOURISM SYSTEMS - 44-270-EN 
Master's Degree
2 years
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People

People (2)

BOUGLEUX Elena
Gruppo 11/SDEA-01 - SCIENZE DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGICHE
Settore SDEA-01/A - Discipline demoetnoantropologiche
AREA MIN. 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche
Delegata del Rettore alle politiche della ricerca early stage
BOUGLEUX Elena
Gruppo 11/SDEA-01 - SCIENZE DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGICHE
Settore SDEA-01/A - Discipline demoetnoantropologiche
AREA MIN. 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche
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Main module

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FOR GREEN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
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