Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives
- by John Eade, Christopher Mele
- Published in: Adobe E-book
Abstract Recent anxieties about the viability of critical and radical...
Abstract Recent discussions of urban governance have emphasized a trend...
Abstract This article draws attention to a controversial activity in poor urban neighborhoods. Slum tourism is a growing business worldwide and simultaneously it is a new form of encounter between the global South and the global North. Following the new mobilities paradigm, I investigate a particular form of slum tourism, which intertwines urban poverty and charity, representation and powerful imaginaries,...

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