Theorizing slum tourism: performing, negotiating and transforming inequality
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| Publication date | 2012 |
| Journal | Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe |
| Volume | Issue number | 93 |
| Pages (from-to) | 113-123 |
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| Abstract |
This Exploration focuses on the emerging field of slum tourism research, which has the poten-
tial to connect Latin American and Caribbean studies on tourism and urban inequality. Slum tourism involves transforming poverty, squalor and violence into a tourism product. Drawing on both altruism and voyeurism, this form of tourism is a complex phenomenon that raises various questions concerning power, inequality and subjectivity. This essay seeks to advance the theoretical debate on slum tourism research and to stimulate comparative studies. Introducing brief examples of slum tourism in Mexico and Jamaica, this contribution moves towards an initial theorization of the performance, negotiation and transformation of inequality in a framework of tourism and global mobilities. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23294474 |
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