{"id":3362,"date":"2018-08-13T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T17:15:08","slug":"welcoming-our-visiting-scholar-wescley-xavier-the-city-as-a-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/welcoming-our-visiting-scholar-wescley-xavier-the-city-as-a-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming our Visiting Scholar, Wescley Xavier: &#8216;The city as a product&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cemore is delighted to welcome one of our latest visiting scholars, Wescley Xavier, to Lancaster University and introduce him to everyone associated with Cemore. If you would like to connect with Wescley during his time here with us then please feel free to ask to get in contact with him through cemore@lancaster.ac.uk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am currently Associate Professor at the Management School of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.br\/\">Federal University of\u00a0Vi\u00e7osa\u00a0<\/a>(UFV), Brazil. I hold a Ph.D. in Organisation Studies at\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ufmg.br\/\">Federal University of Minas Gerais<\/a> (with an exchange period at\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dauphine.fr\/en\/welcome.html\">Universit\u00e9\u00a0Paris-Dauphine<\/a>, France). Furthermore, since 2014 I have been a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Postgraduate Program in Public Administration of UFV.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have worked with researchers closely linked to cultural production and its relation to spatial and territorial issues.\u00a0I am\u00a0especially\u00a0focused on the dialectic feature of culture and how this feature arises as an extension of other\u00a0domination spheres on social life, especially economic ones. Based on these perspectives, I have been investigating spatial determination in cultural places; culture as an apparatus of distinction and\u00a0as an\u00a0identity determinant;\u00a0and\u00a0history and memory about forgotten cultural productions.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To this end, I have investigated the effects of the State and Municipal Laws of Incentive to Culture; culture as a mechanism of identity distinction and determination; the preservation of history and memory concerning forgotten cultural productions. Currently I study the process of commodification of cities involved in the tourism market\u00a0and\u00a0the creation of sceneries that can compose the city as a product. Among all\u00a0the\u00a0processes\u00a0involved in the commercialisation of cities, my research aims to understand the creation of a relatively homogeneous sense of &#8216;city&#8217; that can be recognised in the tourism\u00a0market and its direct effect on spatial occupation, in an organic or planned way.&#8221;<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0We&#8217;re very much looking forward to being able to work with Wescley and learn more about his work, and to show him lovely Lancaster! Keep an eye out for any events we organise with our visiting scholars over the next academic year.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To see a full overview of all of our visitors, fellows and all their collaborations with us, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/research\/fellowships\/\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/dRHE-XF7wls?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Janis Oppliger<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/tourist-sign?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cemore is delighted to welcome one of our latest visiting scholars, Wescley Xavier, to Lancaster University and introduce him to everyone associated with Cemore. If you would like to connect with Wescley during his time here with us then please feel free to ask to get in contact with him through cemore@lancaster.ac.uk. &#8220;I am currently [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[204,619,58,537,618],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobilities-general","tag-brazil","tag-management","tag-research","tag-visiting-scholar","tag-wescley-xavier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/cemore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}