This edited collection explores how national airlines in postcolonial states operate at the complex intersection of corporate branding, cultural governance, tourism development, and national identity formation.
Bart Paul Vanspauwen is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology (INET-md) at NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal). He holds an MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from NOVA, as well as a postgraduate degree in cultural studies and a bachelor's degree in literature from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His research focuses on Afro-Portuguese and Portuguese-Brazilian cultural relations from a comparative postcolonial perspective. He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship for the 'Sounds of Tourism' project at NOVA, exploring TAP Air Portugal, and is currently involved in the projects 'Constellations of Memory' (University of Lisbon) and 'Lusophone Pop-Peripheral Music Networks' (Fluminense Federal University).
Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros is a tenured researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT) within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Barcelona. His research explores the intersections of expressive culture, tourism, materiality, and critical heritage with particular emphasis on experimental methodologies combining ethnography, multimedia documentation, and sensory fieldwork techniques. He authored Cubaneando en Barcelona: Música, migración y experiencia urbana (CSIC, 2012) and co-edited Ambiance, Tourism and the City (Routledge, 2023).
