Holst The Affective Negotiation of Slum Tourism

City Walks in Delhi
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-74657-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holst, Tore

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Slum Tourism, Subalternity And Gentrification Defining ‘Slums’ And ‘Jhuggi Jhopris’, The Agency Of The Urban Indian Governed, The Marginalisation Of Delhi’s Jhuggi Jhopris, Salaam Baalak Trust’s City Walk And The Demolition Of The Akanksha Colony, Conclusion 2. The Authentic Slum Or Former Street-Children As Prisms Of Authenticity? Conceptualising Delhi’s Informal Urbanism As A Creative, Subaltern Space, Discursive And Performative Approaches To Studying Tourism, Street Life And ‘Prisms Of Authenticity’ In Pahar Ganj 3. Playing With Privilege? The Ethics Of Aestheticizing The Slum, Whiteness And Slum Tourism, Privilege And Playful Abjection On The Cw, The Pedagogical And Performative Track Of The Cw 4 The Affective Economy Of Slum Tourism, Tourists’ Responses To The Cw Economies Of Affect And Capital In Tourism, The Anxiety Of Encountering Shelter Home Children, Conclusion 5. The Post-Humanitarian Logic Of Slum Tourism Soft And Hardcore Poverty Porn And Ironic Humanitarian Appeals, The Anger Of Encountering Shelter Home Children, The Grief And Pain Of Encountering Shelter Home Children 6 The Emotional Labour Of Cw-Guides Collecting Data On The Cw-Guides, The Shaping Of A Guide’s ‘Personal Story’, Excluded Stories And Ironic PerformancesSubaltern Shame And Performative Therapy 7 The Economy Of Resocialisation: The Slumming Researcher? Scripts Of Involvement And Detachment In Volunteering, My Position Within Sbt,The Researcher As Performer? Conclusion And Further Perspectives, The Show/Shield Debate And (Im)Possible Articulations Of Solidarity, Subalternity, Meritocracy And Hegemony, References

Über Autor(innen)

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.