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Slum Tourism - Poverty, Power and Ethics (Paperback)
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Slum Tourism - Poverty, Power and Ethics (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of
tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular
imagination, considered to be places of 'otherness', 'moral decay',
'deviant liberty' or 'authenticity'. 'Slumming' has a long
tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when
the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its
development dynamics and its rapidly spreading popularity across
the globe. Township tourism and favela tourism have currently
reached mass tourism characteristics in South Africa and in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. In other countries of the Global South, slum
tourism now also occurs and providers see huge growth potential.
While the morally controversial practice of slum tourism has raised
much attention and opinionated debates in the media for several
years, academic research has only recently started addressing it as
a global phenomenon. This edition provides the first systematic
overview of the field and the diverse issues connected to slum
tourism. This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its
conceptual and empirical breadth. Its chapters indicate that
'global slumming' is not merely a controversial and challenging
topic in itself, but also offers an apt lens through which to
discuss core concepts in critical tourism studies in a global
perspective, in particular: 'poverty', 'power' and 'ethics'.
Building on research by prolific researchers from ten different
countries, the book provides a comprehensive and unique insight in
the current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the
subject. It takes a thorough and critical review of issues
associated with slum tourism, asking why slums are visited, whether
they should be visited, how they are represented, who is benefiting
from it and in what way. It offers new insights to tourism's role
in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, power relations in
contact zones and tourism's cultural and political implications.
Drawing on research from four continents and seven different
countries, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, this
ground-breaking volume will be valuable reading for students,
researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of
tourism.
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