Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty - Couverture rigide

Frenzel, Fabian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783604441 ISBN 13 : 9781783604449

Editeur : Zed Books, 2016

Synopsis

Looks at the growing phenomenon of 'slum tourism' and considers its limitations and potential in tackling inequality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Fabian Frenzel is postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Potsdam and lecturer in organization at the School of Management, University of Leicester. His primary research interest is in the political implications of travel, tourism and mobilities. A particular focus has been the study of social movements' and political activists' mobility. Frenzel has developed two distinct empirical research areas, the study of slum tourism and the study of protest camps in his own work and in collaboration with colleges in two vibrant research networks. He is co-author of the monograph Protest Camps (Zed Books 2013) and co-editor of the edited collections Slum Tourism, Poverty, Power, Ethics (Routledge 2012) and Geographies of Inequality (Routledge 2014). He has published widely in academic journals and also writes on current affairs in the UK and beyond for the German weekly Jungle World.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783604441
• ISBN 13: 9781783604449
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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