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Slum tourism : poverty, power and ethics /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Development and globalization of a new trend in tourism; PART I Situating slum tourism; 2 Wanting to live with common people . . .? The literary evolution of slumming; 3 Beyond 'Othering': the political roots of slum tourism; 4 Slum tourism: for the poor, by the poor; 5 Competition, cooperation and collaboration: business relations and power in township tourism; PART II Representation of poverty; 6 A forgotten place to remember: reflections on the attempt to turn a favela into a museum.
- 7 Tourism of poverty: the value of being poor in the non-governmental order8 Negotiating poverty: the interplay between Dharavi's production and consumption as a tourist destination; 9 Reading the Bangkok slum; PART III Slum tourism and empowerment; 10 Favela tourism: listening to local voices; 11 Slum tourism and inclusive urban development: reflections on China; 12 Poverty tourism as advocacy: a case in Bangkok; 13 Curatorial interventions in township tours: two trajectories; 14 Keep on slumming?; Index.