Plenary Session and Discussion with Macià Blázquez-Salom
"Majorca "à gogo". The agency of the ruling class in the social production of Spain as a mass tourist destination"
Speaker
Macia Blazquez-Salom, Professor, Department of Geography, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Moderator
Aggelos Panayiotopoulos, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Description
Macià Blázquez-Salom is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands. He teaches and researches on tourism, sustainability and land use planning. He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of México (Toluca and La Paz), Nicaragua (UNAM), Dominican Republic (INCTEC), Austria (Salzburg), Germany (Rurh-Bochum), Sweden (Mid-Sweden) and the Netherlands (Wageningen). As a way to link activism and research within the framework of Radical Geography and Political Ecology, he collaborates with social movements in Spain, particularly in the Balearic Islands (https://www.gobmallorca.com/), but also in Latin America (https://www.albasud.org/).
