The Traveling Favela
Favela tours in Rio de Janeiro, township tours in Cape Town and Soweto, slum tours in Mumbai, Manila, Jakarta, Cairo, Nairobi. Since the early 1990s – and in a context of accelerated economic integration, neoliberal urban governance regimes and globalized media cultures – territories located in the megacities of the global South are turned into a tourist commodity with a monetary value agreed upon by promoters and consumers. Twenty per...