No busques tormentas sino poemas marinos a la luz del solocio, turismo y deporte en las nuevas ritualizaciones del Atlántico isleño

Abstract

The sea and the marine space of the coastline of the Canary Islands have played an important role over the last fifty years by means of the new leisure, tourism and sport activities. However, the increased use of the coastline and the ocean is not made only by the tourists who visit us but by the local population as well, who carry it out through their companies and institutional policies or merely as individuals who enthusiastically enjoy the sea in their spare time. The sociocultural effects of these changes in the Islands throughout the last decades have remained hidden behind the more explicit and «important» socioeconomic and environmental effects. This has resulted in episodic and occasional analyses that barely take into account the new symbolic aspects about this marine space and the new ritualizations that have ensued. There are various examples through which we will analyze these processes.