Malte Steinbrink - Böcker

Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its development dynamics and its rapidly spreading popularity across the globe. Township tourism and favela tourism have currently reached mass tourism characteristics in South Africa and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In other countries of the Global South, slum tourism now also occurs and providers see huge growth potential. While the morally controversial practice of slum tourism has raised much attention and opinionated debates in the media for several years, academic research has only recently started addressing it as a global phenomenon. This edition provides the first systematic overview of the field and the diverse issues connected to slum tourism. This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth. Its chapters indicate that ‘global slumming’ is not merely a controversial and challenging topic in itself, but also offers an apt lens through which to discuss core concepts in critical tourism studies in a global perspective, in particular: ‘poverty’, ‘power’ and ‘ethics’.Building on research by prolific researchers from ten different countries, the book provides a comprehensive and unique insight in the current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the subject. It takes a thorough and critical review of issues associated with slum tourism, asking why slums are visited, whether they should be visited, how they are represented, who is benefiting from it and in what way. It offers new insights to tourism's role in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, power relations in contact zones and tourism's cultural and political implications. Drawing on research from four continents and seven different countries, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of tourism.

Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its development dynamics and its rapidly spreading popularity across the globe. Township tourism and favela tourism have currently reached mass tourism characteristics in South Africa and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In other countries of the Global South, slum tourism now also occurs and providers see huge growth potential. While the morally controversial practice of slum tourism has raised much attention and opinionated debates in the media for several years, academic research has only recently started addressing it as a global phenomenon. This edition provides the first systematic overview of the field and the diverse issues connected to slum tourism. This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth. Its chapters indicate that ‘global slumming’ is not merely a controversial and challenging topic in itself, but also offers an apt lens through which to discuss core concepts in critical tourism studies in a global perspective, in particular: ‘poverty’, ‘power’ and ‘ethics’.Building on research by prolific researchers from ten different countries, the book provides a comprehensive and unique insight in the current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the subject. It takes a thorough and critical review of issues associated with slum tourism, asking why slums are visited, whether they should be visited, how they are represented, who is benefiting from it and in what way. It offers new insights to tourism's role in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, power relations in contact zones and tourism's cultural and political implications. Drawing on research from four continents and seven different countries, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of tourism.

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies. It offers an overview of the research landscape and introduces an agency-centered theoretical model that provides a conceptual framework for translocality. The authors Malte Steinbrink and Hannah Niedenführ plead for a translocal approach to social transformation, showing how the translocality of livelihoods is shaping the lives of half a billion people on the continent and impacting local conditions. Using an action-oriented approach, the book analyzes the effects of translocal livelihoods on diverse aspects of economic, environmental and social change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The study thus makes an innovative contribution not only to migration research and development studies but also to the discussion around the policy and practice of development cooperation and planning. It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities.The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities. The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

„Willkommen auf dem Kontinent der Zukunft: Afrika!“ So betitelt die WELT AM SONNTAG am 20. Mai 2007 ihr Schwerpunktthema anlässlich des Afrika-Forums der Weltbank in Berlin. Weitere Schlagzeilen in der Ausgabe lauten: „Wie eine unterschätzte Weltregion durch Reformen und Lebensmut den Wandel schafft“, „Afrika holt auf – und wagt den Aufbruch in eine bessere Zukunft“, „Afrika erlebt ein kleines Wirtschaftswunder“ und „- rika nutzt die Chancen der Globalisierung“. Umrahmt wird die Headline auf dem Titelblatt von einer Giraffe sowie einer lachenden Frau in traditionellem Gewand und mit einem Mobiltelefon in der Hand. So begrüßenswert es auch ist, dass der Klang des kollektiven „Grab- sang[s] auf das in Krisen, Katastrophen und Kriegen versinkende Afrika“ (Nuschler 1996: 302) durch positivere Nebengeräusche gestört wird, so un- gemessen wäre es doch, anlässlich der vor allem durch die enormen Preisspr- ge bei Öl, Gold oder Erzen induzierten Wachstumsraten nun Hymnen der L- preisung auf die Globalisierung anzustimmen, deren Segen jetzt auch das „Herz der Finsternis“ erleuchtet und das apokalyptische Gewisper verstummen lassen 1 wird. Die meisten Menschen in Afrika sind in ihrem Alltag nicht von Hung- tod, Naturkatastrophen oder kriegerischen Konflikten bedroht – dennoch sind Ausmaß und Auswirkung der Armut in Afrika gravierender als auf den übrigen Kontinenten dieser Erde. Das wird sich voraussichtlich in absehbarer Zukunft auch trotz oder wegen der Globalisierung nicht ändern.