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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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 7 "Favelado ain't no sucker": residents' impressions on the touristic favelaConclusion; Afterword; References; Index.