La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)

This article aims to explore the issue of space and time sharing in tourist cities. Through the example of the small tourist city of Sarlat (Dordogne) we sought to verify whether this shared space is a real cohabitation or shared but asynchronous use of the same space. Investigative work, intersecti...

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Main Author: Annie Ouellet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 2019-06-01
Series:Espace populations sociétés
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/eps/8647
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description This article aims to explore the issue of space and time sharing in tourist cities. Through the example of the small tourist city of Sarlat (Dordogne) we sought to verify whether this shared space is a real cohabitation or shared but asynchronous use of the same space. Investigative work, intersecting non-participant observation and interviews, has highlighted the functioning of this small tourist city in its spatial and temporal dimensions. The results show that the practices of the various individuals who invest this city (tourists, permanent residents, seasonal workers, street artists) do not really allow cohabitation. Above all, the presence of tourists generates spatio-temporal recompositions of resident practices. Residents' practices fall within in response and are closely dependent on those of tourists. In addition, while some permanent residents say that they must "flee the city" during the high tourist season, the workers involved in tourism must share the space with the tourists, without the possibility of escape. By definition, seasonal tourism workers are present in the same places and at the same time as tourists. While residents’ practices in summer season are rather marked by avoidance strategies, those of the seasonal workers and street artists are characterized by appropriation and space marking, aiming to save places of "selfsegregation".
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spelling doaj.art-14e565d953ac44efbc4538f2d1f2722c2022-12-21T20:01:55ZengUniversité des Sciences et Technologies de LilleEspace populations sociétés0755-78092104-37522019-06-012019110.4000/eps.8647La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)Annie OuelletThis article aims to explore the issue of space and time sharing in tourist cities. Through the example of the small tourist city of Sarlat (Dordogne) we sought to verify whether this shared space is a real cohabitation or shared but asynchronous use of the same space. Investigative work, intersecting non-participant observation and interviews, has highlighted the functioning of this small tourist city in its spatial and temporal dimensions. The results show that the practices of the various individuals who invest this city (tourists, permanent residents, seasonal workers, street artists) do not really allow cohabitation. Above all, the presence of tourists generates spatio-temporal recompositions of resident practices. Residents' practices fall within in response and are closely dependent on those of tourists. In addition, while some permanent residents say that they must "flee the city" during the high tourist season, the workers involved in tourism must share the space with the tourists, without the possibility of escape. By definition, seasonal tourism workers are present in the same places and at the same time as tourists. While residents’ practices in summer season are rather marked by avoidance strategies, those of the seasonal workers and street artists are characterized by appropriation and space marking, aiming to save places of "selfsegregation".http://journals.openedition.org/eps/8647space sharingcopresencecohabitationtourist citySarlat
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La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)
Espace populations sociétés
space sharing
copresence
cohabitation
tourist city
Sarlat
title La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)
title_full La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)
title_fullStr La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)
title_full_unstemmed La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)
title_short La petite ville touristique : espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partagé ? L’exemple de Sarlat (Dordogne)
title_sort la petite ville touristique espace de cohabitation ou espace en temps partage l exemple de sarlat dordogne
topic space sharing
copresence
cohabitation
tourist city
Sarlat
url http://journals.openedition.org/eps/8647
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