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- Analyzing Pilot Projects of Creative Tourism in an Ultra-Peripheral Region : Which guidelines can be extracted for sustainable regional development?Publication . Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar Damião; Simas, Rosa Neves; Castanho, Rui AlexandreSeveral authors have shown that some tourism typologies - i.e., rural tourism, nature-based tourism, or creative tourism - have a more predominant role in attaining regional sustainability. In this regard, this paper explores the impacts of five pilot projects of creative tourism on the sustainable development of the insular Autonomous Region of the Azores. Through direct exploratory tools, such as interviews and site analyses, the present study enabled us to provide greater insight into creative tourism projects and their relevance to the development of an ultra-peripheral island region. As part of the CREATOUR AZORES Project, this study is based on five creative tourism pilot projects operating in the Azores, Portugal. As such, it is recommended that the regional government, local authorities, and other relevant actors and players in this region actively support and create strategies to strengthen these projects (and similar initiatives) once they not only contribute to regional development and destination promotion but also promote much-desired sustainable development - once these kinds of tourism, in theory, and practice, counteract the dire effects of mass tourism.
- The Azorean Traditional Costume as a Sign of Regional Identity and Culture : From Clothing to JewelleryPublication . Castro, Sylvie; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Cunha, JoanaThe paper offers an analysis of the symbolic importance of material culture. Our starting premise is that clothing is a cultural document of a given time and space, as it participates in the formation of individual and collective identities. Bearing this in mind, we’ll study the female traditional costume of the Azores with a view to improving knowledge on the archipelago’s culture and to creating new visual objects that not only embody the cultural legacy of the islands but also capitalise on environmental resources and endogenous elements. In order to accomplish our purpose, we’ll analyse the islands’ historic background from the point of view of culture, economy and politics, and reflect on the role played by culture in preventing the risk of a de-characterised global world, as well as a force that ensures resistance, empowerment and sustainability. Finally, we’ll seek to enhance the future life of the traditional costume by using it as an inspiration for the creation of jewels. It is our aim to demonstrate the power of contemporary jewellery. Contemporary design can both preserve the community’s identity and transform the visual object into a message that travels across frontiers and unites different peoples.
- A Babel literária de José do CantoPublication . Silva, Leonor Sampaio da[…]. Esta reflexão centrar-se-á numa interpretação dos números que refletem a presença de obras literárias no espólio de José do Canto, contextualizada no cenário intelectual do século XIX português. A partir de uma metodologia de trabalho interdisciplinar que se iniciou com a orientação de uma dissertação de mestrado, procedeu-se à interpretação de dados estatísticos e ao seu cruzamento com leituras diversas. Espera-se demonstrar quer a riqueza deste legado quer a sua importância para conhecermos, através dele e, em particular, das obras literárias que o constituem, a imagem que o bibliófilo desejava projetar de si, da região e do país. […].
- Bertie, o Defensor da FelicidadePublication . Silva, Leonor Sampaio daBertrand Russell – ou Bertie, como era chamado por amigos e família – foi um dos nomes mais importantes do séc. XX não só ao nível intelectual, mas da ação cívica, estando ligado ao ativismo político, especialmente ao combate ao armamento. Nasceu numa família aristocrática inglesa, mas defendeu causas de alcance social, como a redução do horário de trabalho para 4 horas diárias, o direito à habitação, o ensino sem avaliação e o salário sem emprego.
- Os Cantos - o fascínio por um micaelense europeuPublication . Silva, Leonor Sampaio da
- Creative tourism on islands : a review of the literaturePublication . Baixinho, Alexandra; Santos, Carlos; Couto, Gualter; Albergaria, Isabel Soares de; Silva, Leonor Sampaio da; Medeiros, Pilar Damião; Simas, Rosa NevesIn the last two decades, creative tourism has evolved as a burgeoning field, encompassing a wide range of concepts and practices, in di_erent places around the world. From the very beginning, however, creative tourism has aimed to contribute to sustainable development and increased community wellbeing, as an alternative to mass cultural tourism. With this review article, our main objective is to identify and analyze a body of literature that specifically addresses creative tourism in islands, contributing to fill a gap in the knowledge since no reviews with this focus have yet been undertaken. Our aim is to provide a critical overview of creative tourism experiences at island destinations worldwide, addressing the plurality of empirical contexts and methodological approaches found in academic research. This review highlights the key trends in creative tourism, pointing out two distinct approaches: creative tourism in urban contexts, based on creative events, “cultural clusters” or Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), versus community-focused small-scale tourism experiences in rural contexts. This paper also provides an opportunity to assess the evolution of sustainable creative tourism approaches in islands.
- Creativity in H.G. Wells: Imagining the role of miracles in a secular societyPublication . Silva, Leonor Sampaio daThis paper is about the role that creativity plays in life, namely through literary texts in which fantasy is paramount. Textual analysis will focus on a short story by H.G. Wells, a well-known writer of fantasy novels and romances. His books often revolve around the figure of the scientist and the limits of scientific knowledge, to stress the importance of preventing science from replacing religion and, consequently, to avoid the betrayal of the natural order. In this context, the short story “The Man Who Could Work Miracles”, first published in 1898, brings this concern into a new light, since it erases the figure of the scientist in order to test the consequences of the belief in supernatural powers by any person prone to rational argument. Starting with the concept of miracle, the paper will move the role of literary creativity in making sense of life even via narratives in which fantasy prevails to the extent of contradicting natural order and empirical knowledge. As H.G. Wells imagines the role of miracles in a secular society, he reflects on the effects of unlimited power and anticipates Yuval Harari’s conviction that fantasy is essential for personal and collective survival.
- (Des)Encontros Artísticos: O Olhar Crítico de Mark Twain Sobre os Mestres EuropeusPublication . Silva, Leonor Sampaio daA viagem de Mark Twain pela Europa, iniciada a 8 de junho de 1867, é o ponto de partida para um estudo que analisa as leituras que o americano faz dos grandes mestres europeus no livro resultante das suas impressões de viagem, "The Innocents Abroad". A crítica aos modelos europeus acompanha a reflexão sobre a identidade americana em contraste com a europeia e prefigura a importância de questões centrais no âmbito dos Estudos Visuais, como a relação entre pintura e literatura, ou imagem e palavra.
- Francisco Cota Fagundes, No Fio da Vida. Uma odisseia açor-americana (tradução e revisão do autor)Publication . Silva, Leonor Sampaio daEscrever e publicar o relato da própria vida já não é, como durante muito tempo foi, um privilégio reservado aos membros das classes dominantes. A popularidade da vaga intimista nas publicações contemporâneas, influenciada pela atração que as análises dos Estudos Culturais sentem por figuras obscurecidas pelo discurso histórico, estendeu a tradição da escrita confessional a todo o tipo de vozes e assinaturas, suscitando um conjunto rico de reflexões sobre as motivações, as características e o lugar das memórias no interior da escrita literária. A autobiografia de Francisco Cota Fagundes integra este volumoso caudal de escritas do “eu”. O volume agora publicado com o título de “No fio da vida” distingue-se, contudo, de muitos outros textos autobiográficos por várias razões. […].
- A hero with many faces; The frontiers of authorial identity in translated textsPublication . Silva, Leonor Sampaio daThis paper is about identity in modern times, taken in its complexity as stated by Stuart Hall: a fragmented territory, with no stable “sense of self”, due to a set of “displacements” – geographical, social, cultural, and personal. Such displacements originate multiple contacts, which, in turn, cause changes that create experiences of doubt and uncertainty. Displacements and their consequent experiences assume extreme visibility in travel literature and take on a deeper hue when translation takes place. The present study is based on a translated version of a travel book written by two English brothers, who visited the archipelago of the Azores in 1838. The Portuguese translation, dated a century after the original book was published, and edited with the purpose of marking the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the authors’ arrival on the Azores, evinces how identity moves between unclear borderlines. Besides the authors’ and the translator’s voices, we can find the voice of two cultural traditions, two historical periods and geographical spaces in dialogue. The line separating worlds and words and the effort to make sense of them show how identity is in permanent formation and transformation.
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