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Touring Poverty is the first book to address a highly controversial practice: the turning of impoverished neighborhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. Providing a wealth of empirical material and illustration, the book takes the reader into a journey through Rocinha, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro which is advertised as "the largest favela in Latin America". Field observation, participant observation in different tours, interviews with tour operators, guides, tourists and dwellers, as well as brief incursions into other poverty-stricken areas which are also profitable tourist attractions -- Cape Flats, Soweto and Dharavi -- sets the case of the favela in a wider social and economic context. Although offering a comprehensive survey of ethical debates surrounding the practices of poverty tourism, the book goes beyond the commonsense judgment. 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.

Author Biography:

Bianca Freire-Medeiros is Senior Lecture of Sociology at Center for Research and Documentation on Brazilian Contemporary History -- CPDOC, at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Currently, Research Fellow at the Center for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University.
Release date Australia
November 6th, 2012
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
2 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white; 31 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
224
Dimensions
156x234x14
ISBN-13
9780415596541
Product ID
10400658

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