FOR CITIZENS, TOURISTS AND MIGRANTS

Within the Portuguese scientific agora, at Lisbon and across the last years, a continuous research was developed in several fronts (Andrade, 2017-2020). Reflections, life stories, interviews, direct observation, content and discourse analysis were produced. This constitutes the base for the content of stories, that are being developed for the modules of Sociological Guides. In what regards the content, it is mainly socio-economic and cultural content, but the form or structure may be fictional, historical, sociological, anthropological, etc. Or a mix among them.

In other words, the aim of such Sociological Guides is to work as social and Sociological Tours for storytelling about the urban fabric, through narratives on city contexts, events, actors, practices and objects. In a word, these are socio-fictional guides for presenting a Sociological History and a Historical Sociology about touristic cities and other touring sites. In particular, three main themes are already in development: 1. Urban places and their public cultures, e.g. social drinking practices. 2. Activities and novel perspectives of urban tourism: popular tourism; cultural heritage tourism, mobile tourism, creative tourism, communicative tourism, Tourism 3.0 related with City 3.0, Culture 3.0 and Web 3.0, etc. 3. Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on society and on urban tourism and respective alternatives. The photographs above shiwn testify some empirical work in progress, that sustains the intermedia social stories that will populate Sociological Guides.