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Touring poverty / Bianca Freire-Medeiros.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freire-Medeiros, Bianca.
- Series:
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 82.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 82
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slums.
- Tourism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Tourism.
- Tourism--Social aspects.
- Poverty.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2013]
- Summary:
- "The book takes the reader on a journey through Rocinha, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro which is advertised as 'the largest favela in Latin America.' Biana Freire-Medeiros presents interviews with tour operators, guides, tourists and dwellers to explore the vital questions raised by this kind of tourism."--P. [iii].
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415596541
- 0415596548
- 9780203840719
- 0203840712
- OCLC:
- 663952401
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