The Affective Negotiation of Slum Tourism: City Walks in Delhi

ISBN-13: 9781138729896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str.

Tore Holst

Opis

In recent years, informal urban settlements have increasingly been visited as sites of touristic exploration in many large cities of the Global South. By applying different methodologies the book offers a multi-layered analysis of the cultural encounters that take place between slum tourists and former street children, who work as tour guides for a local NGO in Delhi. Post-Humanitarian Slum Tourism enriches the debate by interpreting tourist performances as affective economies, identifying tour guides as emotional labourers and raising questions on the long term impacts of these economically uneven encounters with representatives of the Global North, including the researcher.

Recenzje

"Through this book we come to learn more about the circumstances that together construct the particular spatial environment known as the slum, the representations of Delhi’s street children that become fixed as a part of the guides’ identities and performances, the aestheticization of the slum, and the complex interplays in the co-performances that are the tours. It provides a compelling and insightful lens into the intersections of the complex objectives and impacts of encounters between poverty and tourism." - Meghan Muldoon, Arizona State University

Spis treści

1. Slum Tourism, Subalternity and Gentrification 2. The Authentic Slum or Former Street Children as Prisms of Authenticity? 3. Playing with Privilege? The Ethics of Aestheticizing the Slum 4 The Affective Economy of Slum Tourism 5. The Post-Humanitarian Logic of Slum Tourism 6 The Emotional Labour of CW-Guides 7 The Economy of Resocialisation: The Slumming Researcher? Conclusion and Further Perspectives

O autorze

Tore Holst is External lecturer at Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, where he teaches mobility, migration, postcolonial literature, epistemology and the correlation between modernity and colonialism. He obtained his PhD from Roskilde University in 2016, with a thesis which this book is based on. He has also published postcolonial literature and focused on how the colonial relation between the Danish state and Greenland becomes visible when climate narratives are enacted and disseminated via the media.