The Affective Negotiation of Slum Tourism

City Walks in Delhi

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19927125
AutoresTore Holst (0000-0002-8620-3903, Roskilde University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Páginas184
Fecha de publicación2018-01-29
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaAffective Negotiation of Slum Tourism (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315189598
OpenAlexW4244348094
ISBN9781315189598
Open LibraryOL53992893M
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America. This book analyses the cultural encounters that take place between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour guides for a local NGO in Delhi, India. Slum tours are typically framed as both tourist performances, bought as commodities for a price on the market, and as appeals for aid that tourists encounter within an altruistic discourse of charity. This book enriches the tourism debate by interpreting tourist performances as affective economies, identifying tour guides as emotional labourers and raising questions on the long-term impacts of economically unbalanced encounters with representatives of the Global North, including the researcher. This book studies the ‘feeling rules’ governing a slum tour and how they shape interactions. When do guides permit tourists to exoticise the slum and feel a thrilling sense of disgust towards the effects of abject poverty, and when do they instead guide them towards a sense of solidarity with the slum’s inhabitants? What happens if the tourists rebel and transgress the boundaries delimiting the space of comfortable affective negotiation constituted by the guides? This book will be essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working within the fields of Human Geography, Slum Tourism Research, Subaltern Studies and Development Studies

Archaeology · Economic geography · Geography · Negotiation · Slum · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tourism · Demography · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Anthropology · Cultural · Cultural Policy · Culture · Political science · Popular Culture · Public policy · Slums · Social aspects · Social Science

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