18.5 Backpackers: For leisure relational practice

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:12 AM
Faculty of Economics, TBA
Oral Presentation
Denise FALCÃO , UFMG , Belo Horizonte, Brazil
This study aims to share and talk about some thoughts about the practice of backpackers. Bringing this sense theoretical approaches to understanding this practice in its relationship with contemporary leisure.
The entertainment phenomenon is discussed here from the perspective of human conception, then we have a look at leisure as constitutive of human life, or leisure linked to the achievement of the human being.
This research by giving centrality to the recreational backpacker as a practitioner, draws the gaze of the man who, while living in a capitalist society exclusionary search, simplicity, contact with other societies. Experiencing leisure tourism as well as a relational phenomenon.
I change the focus of the studies (Aoqui, 2005; Oliveira, 2008; Giaretta, 2003) have already made ​​in the leisure and tourism with backpackers who emphasize the economic sector and marketing addressing me on the cultural dimension and the construction of meanings and senses this practice by individuals who affect and are affected by the experience of otherness in his travels.