Main entry:

Frenzel, Fabian, 1975- author.

Title & Author:

Slumming it : the tourist valorization of urban poverty / Fabian Frenzel.

Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2016.
©2016

Description:

xii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.
Introduction -- Tourism and social question -- The slum and the city -- Value practices and tourist valorization -- Slums in local value regimes -- Disruptive valorization: putting slums on the map -- Co-opting and engineering tourist valorization: policy and real estate responses -- Tourist valorization in the post-Fordist care regime -- Slum tourism and political activism -- Conclusion.

Summary:

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 ranging from Rio de Janeiro to Bangkok, and multiple cities in South Africa, Kenya and India, Slumming It examines the roots and consequences of a growing phenomenon whose effects have ranged from gentrification and urban policy reform to the organization of international development and poverty alleviation. Controversially, Frenzel argues that the rise of slum tourism has drawn attention to important global justice issues, and is far more complex than we initially acknowledged."

ISBN:

9781783604432 (pbk.)
1783604433 (pbk.)
9781783604449
1783604441
9781783604456
178360445X
9781783604463
1783604468
9781783604470
1783604476
9781928246084
1928246087

Subject:

Tourism Moral and ethical aspects.
Tourism Social aspects.
Slums.
Urban poor.
Sociology, Urban.
Pauvres en milieu urbain.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
Travel and Tourism.
Slumtourismus
Slum
Armut
Tourismus
Moralisches Handeln
Ethischer Konflikt
Stadtsoziologie
Entwicklungsländer

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293981
Call No.: BIB 239255
Status: Available