Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Freire-Medeiros Bianca Visualizza persona
Titolo: Touring poverty / / Bianca Freire-Medeiros Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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