12. Between Translation and Reinterpretation: What is Local in Barcelona’s Foodsphere?

Soro, Elsa

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“…Tourism in the Gòtic area has caused a growth in the number of cafes, restaurants and self‐styled ‘tapas’ bars catering to transnational consumers that in fact have little to do with traditional Spanish food and culture. In such places, the staff speak English and serve ‘brunch’ alongside other gastronomic specialities according to globalised standards of consumption (Soro, 2016). Interestingly, from the point of view of long‐term Spanish residents, the fact that migrants become spatially concentrated in tourist enclaves implies the formation of transnational commercial and residential spaces, and this seems to be crucial in explaining why Spanish people have been moving out of the neighbourhood.…”

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Urban tourism and population change: Gentrification in the age of mobilities

López‐Gay

Cocola‐Gant

Russo

2020

Population Space and Place

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The prepandemic unbridled growth of tourism has triggered a significant debate regarding the future of cities; several authors suggest that neighbourhood change produced by tourism should be conceived as a form of gentrification. Yet research on population shifts-a fundamental dimension of gentrification-in such neighbourhoods is scarce. Our exploration of the Gòtic area in Barcelona, using quantitative and qualitative techniques, reveals a process of population restructuring characterised by a decrease of long-term residents and inhabited dwellings, and the arrival of young and transnational gentrifiers that are increasingly mobile and form a transient population. We then use some insights from the mobilities literature to make sense of these results. In the gentrification of the Gòtic, the attractiveness of the area for visitors and for a wider palette of transnational dwellers feeds one another, resulting in an uneven negotiation whereby more wealthy and 'footloose' individuals gain access and control of space and housing over less mobile and more dependent populations.

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