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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frenzel, Fabian, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Slums.

Urban poor.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2016.

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."

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.

ISBN:

9781350222595

1350222593

9781783604456

178360445X

OCLC:

952338393