Changes and continuities in the representations of tourism and society in the Moroccan postcard (1910-2016)

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Abstract

Postcards have been cultural artifacts typical of

mass tourism. They are, at the same time, souvenirs

and ways of communication whose uses and

meanings are multiple and varied. As a communication

mean, anachronistic or nostalgic, they are

objects of a past that allows us to make a historical,

visual and narrative analysis of how tourist

destinations were portrayed, emphasizing the

meaning and sense of the exotic, the superiority

of the colonial West and the fascination for adventure.

Analyzing this changes, that is, the transformations

in the representations of that tourist destination,

how the staged has been altering, usually

have a lot to do with how the social gaze of the

tourist and the destination changes, disrupting

these fragments of communication and narratives

of the subjective. From a qualitative approach to

the tourist postcards of Morocco (1890-2016), a

review is made of the tourist and political development

of the country, the aesthetic changes and the

representative content of the postcard and the social

gaze towards the colonial and decolonial that

is perceived in the representations of these fragments

of paper that, souvenirs or communication

media, continue to have a place as an advertising

showcase for a destination.

Keywords

Postcard, colonialism, publicity, representation, souvenir, social imaginary

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Author Biographies

Almudena García Manso, King Juan Carlos University Department of Communication Sciences and Sociology

Contracted Professor Doctor (Communication Sciences and Sociology)

Almudena Barrientos-Báez, Iriarte University School of Tourism (Associated to the University of La Laguna, ULL)

Doctor with International Mention in Education and professor at the European University and Iriarte University School of Tourism, attached to the ULL (Tenerife-Spain). Master in Protocol Management, Production, Organization and Design of Events - Communication Area - (UCJC). Master in Tourist Accommodation Management (Univ. Girona). Degree in Tourism (EUTI-ULL) and Teaching (Univ. Valencia). Editor of the Sciences of Communication and Information Magazine. It is part of the DEBATv project, televised Electoral Debates in Spain: Models, Process, Diagnosis and Proposal (CSO2017-83159-R), R+D+I (Challenges) project financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the State Institute Research Agency (AEI) of the Government of Spain, with the support of the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) of the European Union (EU). IP1 Jose Ruas Araujo. IP2 Ana Belén Fernández Souto. is part of the project New values, governance, financing and public audiovisual services for the Internet society: European and Spanish contrasts (RTI2018-096065-B-E00) of research of the State Program of R+D + I orientation to the Challenges of the Society of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIU), State Research Agency (AEI) and European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). Francisco IP1 Campos Freire. IP2 Miguel Tunez Lopez. Her main lines of research are tourism, communication, education, social media, business management and intermediation, Protocol and Public Relations, emotional intelligence and gender.

David Caldevilla-Dominguez, Complutense University of Madrid

Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. Graduate and PhD in Information Sciences, (U. Complutense). Diploma in Teaching (U. de Zaragoza). Two six-year terms (2006-2018). Professor at: U. Complutense, U. Europea de Madrid, IED, ESERP and IPAM (Oporto -Portugal-). He taught more than 20 subjects. Speaker, lecturer and professor in various own titles (Telemadrid, Walter & Thompson, McCann). Principal Investigator (PI) of the Complutense Research Group 'Concilium' (nº 931,791). Researcher in 15 official research projects. Author of 6 books, 115 scientific articles in refereed journals and 77 book chapters. Director of 5 theses (2 with international mention). Member of scientific committees at numerous international scientific conferences and journals. Speaker at more than 120 international conferences.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.33115/udg_bib/cp.v9i19.22509

Published

2020-12-18

How to Cite

García Manso, A., Barrientos-Báez, A., & Caldevilla-Dominguez, D. (2020). Changes and continuities in the representations of tourism and society in the Moroccan postcard (1910-2016). Communication Papers. Media Literacy and Gender Studies., 9(19). https://doi.org/10.33115/udg_bib/cp.v9i19.22509

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