About epistemologies framed in social imaginaries in front of rural-indigenous tourism

Abstract

Social imaginaries have been analyzed from different fields of research such as sociology, anthropology, geography, history and psychoanalysis. However, for the tourist dimension there is no analysis or research background that allows to know the way in which tourist studies, would use theories on social imaginaries to account for a topic of their own, particularly focused on the local community and not on tourists. This article seeks to show some positions and research regarding the imaginaries and outline a first proposal, to address them from the receiving community. In this sense, central concepts are taken up from Edmund Husserl, such as the habitualities and the social instituted by Cornelius Castoriadis, in order to direct them to the analysis of social imaginaries, as experiences of the receiving communities versus rural tourism- indigenous. The approaches through which social imaginaries have been analyzed, from the cognitive sciences, historiographic, anthropological, and in general the social sciences, have certain nuances that allow to find similarities but also to elucidate differences, while some conceptualize imaginaries as mental images, others argue that they are objectionable through tangible, static and institutionalized elements. However, the intersubjective imaginaries that we want to demarcate in this proposal, starting from the assumption that these are dynamic conceptions of the world and of the reality that forms the historical environment of concrete subjects, beyond the simple static and analytic evocations with imaginaries are commonly delimited.