Tourist Ruralities of the Pampeano-Bonaerense Countryside [Argentina]

Abstract

The goal of this article is to enquire into how state and non-state actors configured tourist versions of countryside. We propose to identify and examine, through three initiatives oriented by the Sub-secretary of Tourism of the Province of Buenos Aires, the National Institute of Agricultural Technology and private owners of agrarian productive establishments: who are participating in the construction of a tourist rurality; what elements [places, subjects, practices, versions of the past] are they selecting; what kind of representations are they creating and disseminating to guide tourism consumption of countryside. Our analysis leads us to consider that different actors build diverse versions of tourist pampas countryside, evocating practices and narratives about the agricultural past and the present.