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Aproveitando a publicação, em 2009, de The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies e de The Sociology of Tourism: European Origins and Developments-duas extensas antologias sobre o estudo do turismo nas ciências sociais-, o artigo discute as tradições académicas que cada um destes volumes representa e defende, nomeadamente, uma tradição anglófona transatlântica e uma tradição europeia continental. Identificam-se algumas tendências dominantes para, no final, se propor a "rematerialização" dos estudos de turismo partindo de um ponto de vista local, focado nas práticas e sensível às assimetrias visíveis (ou não) no terreno. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: estudos de turismo, revisão crítica, tradição anglófona, tradição europeia. Studying tourism today: towards a critical review of tourism studies  The article takes the publication, in 2009, of The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies and The Sociology of Tourism: European Origins and Developments-two anthologies that review how tourism has been studied in the social sciences-as an opportunity to discuss the traditions represented and defended in each of these books, namely: a transatlantic Anglophone tradition, and a European continental one. Some of the main tendencies are identified, so as to propose, in the end, the "rematerialization" of tourism studies through the adoption of a local point of view that focuses on the practices, but is also sensitive to the asymmetries that are visible (or not) from the ground.

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This article discusses the overall situation of cultural studies in Portugal. It starts by analysing some of the courses and graduate programmes currently on offer. The results suggest that cultural studies is experiencing a fast academic expansion. While this seems to be entangled with top-down institutional changes, in the wake of the Bologna process and the turn to the cultural/ creative industries and as part of a more general shift to the 'new economy', there are reasons to believe that alternative understandings of cultural studies have not died out. The name 'cultural studies' continues to cause unease in some academic quarters (namely, in literary studies) and there is ambiguity regarding what is meant by it. Cautioning against the tendency to reduce Portuguese cultural studies to a straightforward import from the Anglophone world, I argue for the need to conduct historically informed research on local strands and traditions of cultural theory and critique. I conclude that only a combined synchronic and diachronic approach-one that is sensitive to national and transnational contexts and intersections-will allow us to gain a better understanding of the deep-running contradictions that characterise the field, helping us to clarify the stakes and reconnect to a socially relevant and critique-orientated intellectual project.

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