Partage de l’espace et coprésence au sein d’une petite ville patrimonialisée et touristifiée

• Main Author: Annie Ouellet
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Presses de l'Université du Québec 2019-01-01
• Series: Téoros
• Subjects: copresence; space sharing; small city; tourism; heritage; Sarlat
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/teoros/3439

This article focuses on the issue of space sharing between different types of inhabitants present simultaneously in cities subject to heritage-making and tourism development. While it is mostly relations between hosts (inhabitants) and guests (tourists) considered as two opposing groups that are discussed, we wish here to apprehend space sharing in a tourist city based on a double capitalistic input. Following a research carried out in the small town of Sarlat (Dordogne, France) and drawing upon semi-structured interviews, two types of capitals appeared crucial for understanding the acceptability of space sharing. The relationships that these inhabitants (temporary or permanent) maintain with others as well as places, if they are intimately linked to their current space-time (within and outside their everyday context), cannot be understood only based on these. The social and cultural capital—in a “Bourdieusian” perspective—and the « indigenousness capital », through the question of attachment to places, allow us to go beyond the binary categorization hosts-guests.