Joao Sarmento

Universidade do Minho, Department of Geography, Faculty Member

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Tourism in the Global South

Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Geográficos eBooks, 2013

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Ruínas, tecnologia e atores na construção da rede das Aldeias Históricas de Portugal

O Programa das Aldeias Históricas é, em Portugal, um dos mais reconhecidos exemplos de intervençã... more O Programa das Aldeias Históricas é, em Portugal, um dos mais reconhecidos exemplos de intervenção integrada de desenvolvimento do interior baseado na valorização dos recursos patrimoniais. Aparentemente, a sua finalidade é recuperar o património e, a partir dele, encontrar condições de futuro para lugares que foram abandonados. O objetivo deste artigo é mostrar, usando a Teoria do Ator-Rede como método de análise e quadro teórico, que a ruína, longe de ser o inimigo que se pretende erradicar, é um elemento fundamental na implementação do Programa, que interage com os humanos e a tecnologiana forma de máquinas, cabos e fios, estruturas de engenharia, e papel impresso-em todo este processo.

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Orlando Ribeiro: Cadernos de campo: Moçambique, 1960-63

Húmus eBooks, 2013

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Enquadramento: o caderno de campo de Moçambique de Orlando Ribeiro e o seu contexto

Húmus eBooks, 2013

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Colonial hotels and histories of violence: Grande Hotel Beira, Mozambique

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Áfricas: Desestabilizando as Geografias De Um Continente

CECS - Publicações / eBooks, Apr 9, 2021

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Nota introdutória: os sentidos e os contextos da(s) crise(s)

UMinho Editora eBooks, Nov 6, 2020

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Urban Ruins: scenarios for thein-between, Guimarães, Portugal

This study, framed in a larger project that aims at mapping and studying ruins and vacant lands i... more This study, framed in a larger project that aims at mapping and studying ruins and vacant lands in four Portuguese cities (NoVoid), proposes to look at a large (8 hectares) abandoned industrial quarter in the city centre of Guimarães, Northwest Portugal. This medium size city (70,000 inhabitants within the city limits, and 160,000 in the municipality) has a strong industrial base, despite the high number of factory closures during the last 3 decades. The quarter, part of a larger quarter area Caldeiroa, contains a variety of derelict structures, or ruins, and vacant land. It has a rough triangular shape, and it has no crossing points, being almost hermetic. Significantly, this empty and almost unused space is roughly the same size as the entire medieval walled city, which is almost contiguous and classified as a UNESCO world heritage site. The main square of the city connects these two areas. A long 19th century avenue (approximately 500 metres) divides Caldeiroa to the west and ano...

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Geocaching, pessoas em rede numa realidade aumentada

Criado em maio de 2000, Geocaching e uma atividade que se esta a espalhar pelo mundo, contando co... more Criado em maio de 2000, Geocaching e uma atividade que se esta a espalhar pelo mundo, contando com 2,4 milhoes de localizacoes e mais de 6 milhoes de participantes. Consiste na mistura de tres interesses – tecnologia, caca ao tesouro e gosto pelo exterior – e na juncao de dois espacos: real (e ao ar livre) e virtual. Desta juncao espacial surge uma diferente perspetiva da realidade e do territorio. Sera na introducao de uma nova dimensao informacional na realidade, criando pontes entre o que se passa na imaterialidade das redes sociais e a materialidade do territorio geografico que iremos refletir, procurando compreender diferentes dimensoes desta atividade que fomenta a mobilidade dos seus participantes, tornando-os visitantes e turistas. O Geocaching e um dos “location-based game” mais antigos e provavelmente o mais expansivo geograficamente (Kiefer et al., 2006). Une o mundo real e o virtual, passando do mundo virtual para o real, e de novo para o virtual, produzindo tambem uma p...

Environmental concerns and attitudes of tourists towards national park uses and services

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2020

Human behaviour plays a significant role in preserving or degrading the environment. To put into ... more Human behaviour plays a significant role in preserving or degrading the environment. To put into practice the notion of 'use without abuse', it is vital for national park managers to be cognizant of tourists' attitudes and beliefs, which in turn affect their behaviours. This study evaluates the attitudes of domestic and international tourists regarding the appropriate uses of national parks, as well as their environmental concerns. The study also addresses the relationship between environmental concerns and tourists' perceptions of the appropriateness of activities, facilities and services inside national parks. A total of 379 domestic (n ¼ 175) and international (n ¼ 204) tourists participated in this study at Taman Negara (national park), Malaysia. The findings reveal that domestic tourists perceive motorised activities, accommodation and service facilities, and sport/recreation facilities as more acceptable than international tourists do. The results of this study may help managers of protected areas in Malaysia and other developing countries play a stronger role in improving visitors' awareness of environmental challenges and acceptable behaviours and activities. Management implications: This study reinforces established ideas for national park and protected area management: � Tourists' environmental concerns can negatively affect their attitudes towards the appropriateness of activities, facilities, and accommodations within national parks. � The attitudes of various groups of visitors regarding human uses of national parks vary between different cultural backgrounds. � To reduce the impact of tourism activities on the natural environment and minimising the environmental degradation of protected areas, decision-makers should incorporate into their management plans the environmental concerns and attitudes of visitors who use protected areas and national parks.

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The Colonial Hotel: spacing violence at the Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2018

In spite of its dereliction, the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, has emerged as an iconic Afri... more In spite of its dereliction, the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique, has emerged as an iconic African building. The dissonant meanings of this site, offer multiple opportunities to investigate the intersection of space and colonialism. We focus upon the cultural and political topologies of the hotel, and of colonial hotels generally, and make the proposition that they were a particular kind of violent colonial institution. By converging a relational reading of both violence and architecture, we reconstruct through the excavation of archival and related materials, the processes present in the histories of the hotel and city at large, to unmask how they acted as spaces of slow violence. White settler’s activities and rationales were underpinned by deliberative strategies of unknowing, forgetting, disavowal which together formed a kind of cultural agnosia that insulated them from the foundational violence that supported the colonial condition. We use a dispersed concept of violence, und...

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Tourists' Values and Perceived Appropriate Uses of National Parks

Tourism Analysis, 2018

National park managers must consider people's different values, beliefs, and attitudes in dev... more National park managers must consider people's different values, beliefs, and attitudes in developing management plans and policies to justify providing opportunities for public recreation preserving ecological integrity. This study examines tourists' perceptions of appropriate uses of, and services within, national parks, which in turn are influenced by their value orientations. It then investigates how value orientations can affect tourists' perceptions toward appropriate uses of national parks. The article also identifies the mediating role of environmental concern on value orientations with regard to appropriate national park uses and services. Data from 379 tourists in Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park reveal that tourists perceive appreciative or passive activities as most appropriate and more consumptive activities, such as hunting and golf courses, as least appropriate. Results also indicate positive and negative relationships between value orientations an...

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How Important are Value Orientations to Environmental Concern? A Comparison of National and International Tourists in Malaysia

African and Asian Studies, 2016

Environmental beliefs, intentions, and behaviors can be derived from three types of values, namel... more Environmental beliefs, intentions, and behaviors can be derived from three types of values, namely, egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric. Consequently, the understanding of tourists’ value orientations and their association with environmental concern is crucial for improving productive strategies in the management of natural resources and protected areas. This study aims to scrutinize the priorities of tripartite value orientation between national (Malaysian) and international tourists (mostly European), and to investigate the contribution of these three value orientations to tourists’ environmental concern. Results disclose that Malaysian tourists valorize egoistic values more than tourists from Europe and other developed countries and are thus less concerned about the environment compared with their international counterparts. Furthermore, egoistic values have a strong negative relationship with environmental concern, whereas altruistic and biospheric values are positively related...

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As geografias culturais pós-coloniais

Geografias do Corpo. …, 2007

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Urban ruination: suspended projects in Guimarães, Portugal

Heritage Hotel

Encyclopedia of Tourism, 2021

UDK 338.48(469) Preliminary communication

Given the significant impact that cultural events may have in local communities and their inheren... more Given the significant impact that cultural events may have in local communities and their inherent or-ganization complexity, it is important to understand their specificities. Most of the times cultural events disregard marketing and often marketing is distant from art. Thus an analysis of an internal marketing perspective might bring significant returns to the organization of such an event. This paper considers the three editions (2011, 2012 and 2013) of a cultural event – Noc Noc – organized by a local association in the city of Guimarães, Portugal. Its format is based in analogous events, as Noc Noc intends to convert everyday spaces (homes, commercial outlets and a number of other buildings) into cultural spaces, organized and transformed by artists, hosts and audiences. By interviewing a sample of pe-ople (20) who have hosted this cultural event, sometimes doubling as artists, and by experiencing the three editions of the event, this paper analyses how the internal stakeholders...

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Orlando Ribeiro e o caderno de campo nº53 (Angola): uma reconstituição possível

Este texto resulta de uma aula que se centrou nas campanhas que o geógrafo Orlando Ribeiro realiz... more Este texto resulta de uma aula que se centrou nas campanhas que o geógrafo Orlando Ribeiro realizou a Angola na década de 1960, cam-panhas essas integradas na Missão de Geografia Física e Humana do Ultramar (1960-1973), por sua vez enquadrada na atividade científica no império colonial português entre o final da Segunda Guerra Mun-dial e as independências africanas. Em particular, debruçou-se sobre o seu caderno de campo de Angola, o caderno nº 53, cuja análise está em publicação (Sarmento, no prelo). Em traços gerais, a aula procurou apre-sentar o caderno de campo como fonte de informação científica, e neste caso específico, o modo como a informação desta fonte pode ser cruzada com outras fontes disponíveis, no objetivo de reconstituir e analisar o mais detalhadamente possível as viagens científicas do geógrafo Orlando Ribeiro em Angola

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O Cesto de Ngungunhane no Museu Nacional de Etnologia

CECS - Publicações / eBooks, Apr 9, 2021

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Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación para el desarrollo: ejemplos en India y Uganda

Education in the Knowledge Society (EKS), 2010

Las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC) se relacionan con los usos que las p... more Las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación (TIC) se relacionan con los usos que las personas hacen de las tecnologías que en un determinado momento estan disponibles, dentro de ciertos contextos institucionales, económicos, sociales y culturales. Este artículo se centra en el análisis de las aplicaciones TIC para el desarrollo social y económico, y presenta y discute algunos proyectos y debates del proceso de las TIC para el desarrollo (ICT4D). Sugiere que es necesaria una segunda revolución digital, en la cual los contenidos y formas creativas de utilizar la tecnología tenga efectos socioeconómicos positivos en las poblaciones más desfavorecidas. Muchas de las historias de éxito ilustran que los principales desafíos no residen en la tecnología en sí misma, sino en la organización, coordinación y establecimiento de un ambiente creativo y motivador entre los variados actores implicados.

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Tourism in the Global South

Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Geográficos eBooks, 2013

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Ruínas, tecnologia e atores na construção da rede das Aldeias Históricas de Portugal

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Orlando Ribeiro: Cadernos de campo: Moçambique, 1960-63

Húmus eBooks, 2013

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Enquadramento: o caderno de campo de Moçambique de Orlando Ribeiro e o seu contexto

Húmus eBooks, 2013

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