Tackling the global challenges of tourism and sustainability: epistemic subsidiarity and posthuman democracy?

Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann

Tackling the global challenges of tourism and sustainability: epistemic subsidiarity and posthuman democracy?

Law

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Abstract

This paper will pick up on discussions from prior panels, finding that the promotion of workable balances between tourism and the sustainable reproduction of societies critically depends on the legal entrenchment of spaces for local deliberation, in which local values and knowledges are protected. It will discuss how legal developments across the globe recognising rights of Nature can be instrumental to that end. As part of said developments, it will focus on the societal processes that led to the enactment of Law 19/2022 (30 September) of the Spanish Parliament, which recognises the legal personhood of the lagoon of the Mar Menor. It concludes by assessing this innovative framework´s potential for promoting patterns of social reproduction (including the key economic sectors of tourism), in a way compatible with the rights of the lagoon.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 6 Jun 2025
Event	Tourism and Sustainability?: Toward a New Socio-Legal Research Agenda - International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain Duration: 5 Jun 2025 → 6 Jun 2025 https://www.iisj.net/en/workshops/tourism-and-sustainability-toward-new-socio-legal-research-agenda

Workshop

Workshop	Tourism and Sustainability?
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Oñati
Period	5/06/25 → 6/06/25
Internet address	https://www.iisj.net/en/workshops/tourism-and-sustainability-toward-new-socio-legal-research-agenda

Funding

This paper is a contribution to the OJIGobTus Project, official code no. PID2022-137996NB-I00, funded by MCIN/ AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER, EU, and led by Prof Dr Laura Huici Sancho and Prof Dr Milagros Álvarez-Verdugo.

Keywords

tourism
sustainability
critical
socio-legal studies
epistemic subsidiarity
posthuman democracy

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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