The main research interests of Elisa Magnani, Lecturer of Geography at the School of Languages, Literatures, Translations and Interpreting of the University of Bologna, are cultural and memory tourism, tourism-based local development and pro-poor tourism in Africa, environment protection and community conservation strategies in sub-Saharan Africa.
Lately Elisa has also started investigating the topics of best practices for social integration and intercultural dialogue, and didactics of Geography connected to the use of information technologies.
The bibliographic production has focused mainly on cultural and memory tourism connected to the heritage of the slave trade, and in relation to these topics she has carried out several fieldwork missions in Senegal and Mozambique and would like to continue her research on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, namely in Brazil.
Brazilian Scientific collaborations
- Camila Rodrigues, Doutora em Política e Gestão Ambiental
Professora Adjunta II da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
Departamento de Administração e Turismo
Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Territorial e Políticas Pública
Programa de Pós-graduação em Práticas em Desenvolvimento Sustentável
- Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Sarti
Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades-EACH
Universidade de São Paulo
Curso de Lazer e Turismo
Rua Arlindo Béttio, 1000 - Ermelino Matarazzo
São Paulo/SP - CEP 03828-080
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