CULT 320:Globalization and Culture

Kara Heitz, 10/30/2014

Questions:• Why do people go on “slum tours”? What do they get out of the

experience?

• How did slum tourism and poverty tourism (i.e. “slumming”) develop historically? What are similarities and differences between slum tours in the past and in current times?

• Steinbrink argues that “… new trends in tourism are never created out of nothing. They draw upon more or less known images and ideas about unfamiliar and distant regions and their inhabitants” (Steinbrink, 214). What do tourists expect to see in the slum? How do they imagine and define the “others” found in slums in contrast to themselves?

• What are some of the ethical issues associated with slum tourism?

Punch Magazine, 1884

New York Times; Sept. 14, 1884 A "slumming tour" in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (Dec 5, 1885)

http://www.realitytoursandtravel.com/slum-tours.html

http://www.townshiptourscapetown.co.za/

http://www.emoya.co.za/p23/accommodation/shanty-town-for-a-unique-accommodation-experience-in-bloemfontein.html

http://bealocal.com/tours/favela-funk-party

http://www.graylineneworleans.com/hurricane-katrina-tour.html