Abstract
This article draws attention to a controversial activity in poor urban neighborhoods. Slum tourism is a growing business worldwide and simultaneously it is a new form of encounter between the global South and the global North. Following the new mobilities paradigm, I investigate a particular form of slum tourism, which intertwines urban poverty and charity, representation and powerful imaginaries, tourist mobility and transnational lifestyles. This is the case in Mazatlan, Mexico, where a multidenominational church offers regular tours to the city's garbage dump. I scrutinize the various modes of (im)mobilities and their implications for peoples and places, interconnecting spheres which are conceived of as separate. In conclusion, I outline the ambiguous effects when marginalized spaces become integral parts of the urban representation.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Keywords: | Mexico;mobility;slums;tourism |
| Faculties: | Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Ethnology |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology |
| ISSN: | 0309-1317 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 69309 |
| Date Deposited: | 28. Oct 2019, 15:03 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:51 |
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