Theorizing Slum Tourism: Performing, Negotiating and Transforming Inequality

Theorizing Slum Tourism: Performing, Negotiating and Transforming Inequality

Abstract:This Exploration focuses on the emerging field of slum tourism research, which has the potential to connect Latin American and Caribbean studies on tourism and urban inequality. Slum tourism involves transforming poverty, squalor and violence into a tourism product. Drawing on both altruism...

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Main Authors: Eveline Dürr, Rivke Jaffe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEDLA 2012-10-01
Series:European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Subjects:
tourism
inequality
urban poverty
Mexico
Jamaica
turismo
desigualdad
pobreza urbana
México
Online Access:http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.8367/

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http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.8367/

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