Considerations about the ideology in and of the touristical space = Ponderações acerca da ideologia no e do espaço turístico

Abstract

The present article adresses the ideological components and its position in the production of space by tourism. Questioning from where comes the power of ideology, an analysis is conducted about the three conceptions that compose this category. The first conception points the ideology as an inversion and with parciality in a historical-social process that is complemented by itself, both to transform the subjetivity in objectivity and to treat the appearence of things in its totalities. The second one makes reference to ideology as a class position, covering some groups which act (deliberately or thoughtlessly) for the mystification and naturalization of socio-spatial processes, and others that, guided by procedures that permit to reproduct ideally the reality, fulfill the important role of desmistify those first groups. The third and even more fundamental conception is associated with these notions that position the ideologieson the space reached by tourism. It contemplates ideology as something rooted in the socio-productives operations, reified or even of the touristic space. These operations can not be changed without the suppression of the contradictory conection between capital versus work. Through this analysis, which implies diferent and complementary conceptions, it is possible to verify tourism as an important alienation mechanism because of its appearance and the way it is produced as well.