Reclaimining a sense of place
Mobility and the right to stay in a milieu

"Touristification describes a situation where locals fear their home towns and cities are being developed, designed and managed to attract and accommodate tourists. This touristification process benefits commerce and industries that profit from catering to visitors. Everyone else misses out, or is literally pushed out by rising housing costs. Some places are overwhelmed by short-term overtourism...Local housing, for instance, is being sacrificed for holiday rentals, facilitated by agencies such as Airbnb. local communities do not feel heard or empowered by tourism models which are focused on growth."
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https://theconversation.com/overtourism-is-reshaping-communities-in-europe-could-australia-be-next-260173
#tourism #overtourism #Touristification #TouristDestinations #TouristTown #coast #noise #pollution #cars #Bellingen #BellingenShire #harm #community #displacement #FastTrackApprovals #airbnb #regulation #MarketForces #housing #commodification #degradation #LeDroitàlaVille #mobility #RightToStay

The plant medicine hayakwaska (#ayahuasca), marketed as a mystical shortcut to healing and #enlightenment, is an example of what the Indigenous storyteller Nina Gualinga, sees as #commodification and #extractivism in the Amazon.

.., and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing #culturalappropriation, environmental destruction and #marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/17/waska-the-cost-of-spiritual-healing-in-the-amazon

I just reviewed Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell📚

#BywaterBooks #BeSteadwell #romance #family #sisters #dating #wlw #love #gentrification #politics #WashingtonDC #magic #lgbtq+ #community #systemicinequity #commodification #romance

https://womenusingwords.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/chocolate-chip-city/

https://x.com/BladeoftheS/status/1928825147043053971

#greed #nature #commodification

#environment #ecology #biodiversity #agroecology #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #tiktok #cdnpoli #electricity #solar #energy #geopolitics #china #africa #mexico #cuba #venezuela @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow @environment

❓ Can squatting and street art challenge the commodification of our cities?

Our new #OpenAccess article in the spotlight explores how #urban artists in #Groningen, #Netherlands, use squatting and commoning to resist #housing #commodification and reclaim space amid creative #city redevelopment.

Read our interview with the authors:
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/open-access-publication-in-the-spotlight-social-infrastructures-as-pillars-of-resistance-against

#UrbanStudies #SocialInfrastructures