Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China

Szadziewski, Henryk; Mostafanezhad, Mary; Murton, Galen

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.010

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“…Winter, 2020), and their role in tourism (e.g. Szadziewski et al, 2022). Here, focus is on the practices and experiences of corporeal mobilities, how these are supported or hindered through the routes' material, political, social, and managerial affects, and how such mobilities contribute to the Chamagudao's material and social construction.…”

Section: Trails and Routes In Tourismmentioning

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Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao

Witte

2023

Tourist Studies

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This article examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise the Chamagudao’s heritage as a historic trade and caravan route. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan, China, following movements of tourists, guides, residents and information on the remaining trails of the Chamagudao. It outlines how nodes, constructed by state actors and touristic media, rather than the lines of mobile heritage primarily constitute the Chamagudao, and the implications for tourists’ awareness and understanding of the Chamagudao as mobile heritage. Explicitly mobile practices occurring along its trajectories are challenging the nodal interpretations of this historic route. The article offers a mobile perspective on assessing the opportunities and challenges faced by tourism routes in China in the governments bid to develop these as mobile heritage destinations.

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Section: Trails and Routes In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao

Witte

2023

Tourist Studies

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“…Importantly, the BRI's transport routes, logistics centers, trade hubs, SEZs, smart cities, and optical fibre networks traverse and enroll both urban centers and vast, sometimes remote, spaces and populations, including Indigenous people, whose place‐based, locally specific livelihoods are disarticulated from national centers of power (Szadziewski et al., 2022). The connectedness of BRI's diffuse territorialization reflects Brenner's (2013, p. 167) notion of ‘extended urbanization’, in the sense that it involves the operationalization of places, territories and landscapes that support urban life but are often located beyond dense population centers (Williams et al., 2020).…”

Section: Bri As Experience: Places Livelihoods and Everyday Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Cheng

Apostolopoulou

2023

Geography Compass

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In this paper, we survey the expanding body of literature on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Chinese and Anglophone geography, and locate the main lines of development. The emerging scholarship approaches the BRI as a spatial discourse and examines the production of geographical reasoning in statecraft. It also links up with studies of the BRI as both a material project and an everyday experience. We argue that it is in this combined understanding of BRI's multiple registers, as discourse, project, and experience, that a trilectical approach for future geographical engagement can be identified as the BRI edges to its second decade.

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“…Therefore, its rural development is inseparable from the policies and financial support of the central government and is achieved through the selection of BLVCs to promote the Xinjiang rural tourism brand. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang vigorously promoted the strategy of "revitalizing Xinjiang through tourism" [83]. In 2017, the Measures for Promoting Rural Tourism of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region supported the rural tourism industry via capital, science and technology, taxation, finance and other aspects [84].…”

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Spatial Pattern and Formation Mechanism of Rural Tourism Resources in China: Evidence from 1470 National Leisure Villages

Xie

Xiang-zhuang

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IJGI

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Rural tourism development has been an essential driving force behind China’s promotion of integrated urban–rural development, sustainable rural development and rural revitalization in the new era. This study included 1470 villages on the national list of beautiful leisure villages in China (BLVCs) from 2010 to 2021. We explored the distribution characteristics and influencing factors based on mathematical statistics and spatial analysis in ArcGIS to provide a theoretical reference for promoting the development of leisure village agriculture and rural tourism. The results show that the distribution of BLVC presents a clustered state, showing a distribution pattern of a dual core, seven centers and multiple scattered points. BLVCs are mainly distributed in areas with flat terrain and sufficient water resources, which are conducive to agricultural production and life. Having convenient transportation and rich tourism resources aids the promotion of rural tourism development. The resulting gap in regional development is balanced to some extent by government support. The research results provide a reference value for future rural spatial optimization and sustainable development. This paper summarizes the law of rural development and clarifies the factors influencing the development of rural tourism, and it provides the Chinese experience as a model for a rural renaissance empowered by rural tourism.

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Territorialization on tour: The tourist gaze along the Silk Road Economic Belt in Kashgar, China

Cited by 24 publications

References 26 publications

Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao

Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao

Locating the Belt and Road Initiative's spatial trilectics

Spatial Pattern and Formation Mechanism of Rural Tourism Resources in China: Evidence from 1470 National Leisure Villages

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