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Alpine Masculinity: A Gendered Figuration of Capital in the Patagonian Andes
Author(s) -
Mendoza Marcos
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12839
Subject(s) - wilderness , privilege (computing) , masculinity , subjectivity , narrative , capital (architecture) , gender studies , sociology , tourism , ecotourism , subject (documents) , perspective (graphical) , political science , geography , archaeology , art , ecology , philosophy , literature , epistemology , library science , computer science , law , biology , visual arts
This article investigates the Patagonian ecotourism industry and the spatial production of gender privilege. The analysis attends to how the spatial practices of park rangers, tourism guides and climbers create a gendered space of capital accumulation that devalues and marginalises othered subjects – such as women and non‐alpine men – within specific domains of nature. Developing the concept of a figuration of capital, this article argues that the ecotourism industry has facilitated the rise of an alpine masculine subject based upon key bodily values: robust physicality, a conservationist ethic and heroic narration about engaging wilderness.