Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros
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| Autore: |
Freire-Medeiros Bianca
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| Titolo: |
Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.3/364 |
| Soggetto topico: | Slums |
| Tourism - Moral and ethical aspects | |
| Tourism - Social aspects | |
| Poverty | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. Attraction to poverty, poverty as attraction -- pt. II. Producing, circulating and consuming the touristic favela. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption.The book takes the reader on a journey through Rocinha, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro which is advertised as ""the largest favela in Latin America"". Bianca Freire-Medeiros presents interviews with tour operators, guides, tourists and dwellers to explore the vital questions ra |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Touring poverty |
| ISBN: | 0-203-84071-2 |
| 1-283-87199-8 | |
| 1-136-89352-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453049303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge Advances in Sociology