Bianca Freire-Medeiros

Touring Poverty (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. With a full and sensitive exploration of the ethical debates surrounding the 'sale of emotions' elicited by the first-hand contemplation of poverty, Touring Poverty is an innovative book that provokes the reader to think about the role played by tourism - and our role as tourists - within a context of growing poverty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136893513
• Artikelnr.: 38458394

Autorenporträt

Bianca Freire-Medeiros is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Center for Research and Documentation on Brazilian Contemporary History (CPDOC) at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was a Research Fellow at the Center for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Touristic Poverty. Part I 1. Slumming: The Discovery of
the Other Half 2. Touring Poverty in the New Millennium: Places, Peoples
and Practices Part II 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 Favela. Conclusion. Afterword. References. Index.