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Touring Poverty.

Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freire-Medeiros, Bianca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge advances in sociology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption. The book takes the reader on a journey through Rocinha, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro which is advertised as ""the largest favela in Latin America"". Bianca Freire-Medeiros presents interviews with tour operators, guides, tourists and dwellers to explore the vital questions ra. 
505 0 |a Touring Poverty; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Touristic poverty; Part I Attraction to poverty, poverty as attraction; 1 Slumming: the discovery of the other half; 2 Touring poverty in the new millennium: places, peoples and practices; Part II Producing, circulating and consuming the touristic favela; 3 A trademark and a tourist destination; 4 Tourism in "the largest favela in Latin America"; 5 To be or not to be a favela tourist?; 6 Crafting (mis)recognition: the touristic favela and its souvenirs. 
505 8 |a 7 "Favelado ain't no sucker": residents' impressions on the touristic favelaConclusion; Afterword; References; Index. 
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