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Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty
Fabian Frenzel
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Description for Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty
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Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums exert on their better-off visitors, looking at the many ways in which this curious form of attraction ignites changes both in the slums themselves and on the world stage. Covering slums in Rio de Janeiro, ... Read more
Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums exert on their better-off visitors, looking at the many ways in which this curious form of attraction ignites changes both in the slums themselves and on the world stage. Covering slums in Rio de Janeiro, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
303g
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783604432
SKU
V9781783604432
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99-1
About Fabian Frenzel
Fabian Frenzel is lecturer in organization studies at the University of Leicester and senior research fellow with the University of Johannesburg. From 2012 to 2014 he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His research interests concern the intersections of mobility, politics and organization studies. His previous books include Protest Camps (co-authored with Anna Feigenbaum and ... Read more
Reviews for Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty
'The definitive book on the topic.' Forbes 'A provoking read, exceptional in its efforts to understand slum tourism as a global industry and a symbolic practice of valorisation.' Africa at LSE 'A well-argued case for building political projects out of what we have in common, rather than being immobilised by cultural difference.' ... Read more