1st Edition
Tourism and Geographies of Inequality The New Global Slumming Phenomenon
1. Slum Tourism: Developments in a Young Field of Interdisciplinary Tourism Research 2. ‘We did the Slum!’ – Urban Poverty Tourism in Historical Perspective 3. Poor but Happy: Volunteer Tourists’ Encounters with Poverty 4. Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting ‘Reality’ in Dharavi, Mumbai 5. Informal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums 6. Mobile Imaginaries, Portable Signs: Global Consumption and Representations of Slum Life 7. Glimpses of Another World: The Favela as a Tourist Attraction 8. Encounters over Garbage: Tourists and Lifestyle Migrants in Mexico
Biography
Fabian Frenzel is Lecturer at the School of Management, University of Leicester, UK. His research interests converge in the political implications of travel and mobility. As a postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Potsdam he has investigated slum tourism in Africa, India and Brazil.
Ko Koens is a Lecturer at the Academy of Hotel and Facility Management, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences. His main research interests are sustainability, entrepreneurship and social dilemmas in tourism and hospitality.
