Disentangling the relationship between rurality and tourism from a peripheral rural area of Europe
通过西班牙安达卢西亚的民族志案例，研究农村如何将旅游内化为自身定义性元素，揭示旅游已成为欧洲边缘农村地区乡村性的结构性组成部分。
To achieve a more complex understanding of the relationships between tourism and rurality, we need to deeper explore the extent to which tourism is part of the countryside. To do this, it is not enough to focus on how tourism constructs rurality, but rather on how the rural world appropriates tourism and makes it a defining element of rurality. This article illustrates the opportunity of this analytical perspective through an ethnographic case study in Andalusia (Spain) that helps us understand how and why tourism becomes an inherent element of rurality in peripheral rural areas of Europe. • We do not fully understand the relationship between tourism and rurality. • It is necessary to go beyond the touristic construction of the rural. • The rural world appropriates tourism and makes it a defining element of rurality. • Tourism is currently a structural component of rurality.