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Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on
guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin
America. This book analyses the cultural encounters that take place
between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour
guides for a local NGO in Delhi, India. Slum tours are typically
framed as both tourist performances, bought as commodities for a
price on the market, and as appeals for aid that tourists encounter
within an altruistic discourse of charity. This book enriches the
tourism debate by interpreting tourist performances as affective
economies, identifying tour guides as emotional labourers and
raising questions on the long-term impacts of economically
unbalanced encounters with representatives of the Global North,
including the researcher. This book studies the 'feeling rules'
governing a slum tour and how they shape interactions. When do
guides permit tourists to exoticise the slum and feel a thrilling
sense of disgust towards the effects of abject poverty, and when do
they instead guide them towards a sense of solidarity with the
slum's inhabitants? What happens if the tourists rebel and
transgress the boundaries delimiting the space of comfortable
affective negotiation constituted by the guides? This book will be
essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers
working within the fields of Human Geography, Slum Tourism
Research, Subaltern Studies and Development Studies.
Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on
guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin
America. This book analyses the cultural encounters that take place
between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour
guides for a local NGO in Delhi, India. Slum tours are typically
framed as both tourist performances, bought as commodities for a
price on the market, and as appeals for aid that tourists encounter
within an altruistic discourse of charity. This book enriches the
tourism debate by interpreting tourist performances as affective
economies, identifying tour guides as emotional labourers and
raising questions on the long-term impacts of economically
unbalanced encounters with representatives of the Global North,
including the researcher. This book studies the 'feeling rules'
governing a slum tour and how they shape interactions. When do
guides permit tourists to exoticise the slum and feel a thrilling
sense of disgust towards the effects of abject poverty, and when do
they instead guide them towards a sense of solidarity with the
slum's inhabitants? What happens if the tourists rebel and
transgress the boundaries delimiting the space of comfortable
affective negotiation constituted by the guides? This book will be
essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers
working within the fields of Human Geography, Slum Tourism
Research, Subaltern Studies and Development Studies.
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