TY - BOOK A1 - Steinbrink, Malte A1 - Buning, Michael A1 - Legant, Martin A1 - Schauwinhold, Berenike A1 - Süßenguth, Tore T1 - Touring Katutura! BT - Poverty, Tourism, and Poverty Tourism in Windhoek, Namibia N2 - Guided sightseeing tours of the former township of Katutura have been offered in Windhoek since the mid-1990s. City tourism in the Namibian capital had thus become, at quite an early point in time, part of the trend towards utilising poor urban areas for purposes of tourism – a trend that set in at the beginning of the same decade. Frequently referred to as “slum tourism” or “poverty tourism”, the phenomenon of guided tours around places of poverty has not only been causing some media sensation and much public outrage since its emergence; in the past few years, it has developed into a vital field of scientific research, too. “Global Slumming” provides the grounds for a rethinking of the relationship between poverty and tourism in world society. This book is the outcome of a study project of the Institute of Geography at the School of Cultural Studies and Social Science of the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. It represents the first empirical case study on township tourism in Namibia. It focuses on four aspects: 1. Emergence, development and (market) structure of township tourism in Windhoek 2. Expectations/imaginations, representations as well as perceptions of the township and its inhabitants from the tourist’s perspective 3. Perception and assessment of township tourism from the residents’ perspective 4. Local economic effects and the poverty-alleviating impact of township tourism The aim is to make an empirical contribution to the discussion around the tourism-poverty nexus and to an understanding of the global phenomenon of urban poverty tourism. T3 - Potsdamer Geographische Praxis - 11 KW - Katutura KW - Namibia KW - Windhoek KW - authenticity KW - poverty KW - slum tourism KW - slumming KW - tourism KW - township KW - township tourism KW - Armut KW - Authentizität KW - Katutura KW - Namibia KW - Slumming KW - Slumtourismus KW - Tourismus KW - Township KW - Townshiptourismus KW - Windhoek Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95917 SN - 978-3-86956-384-8 SN - 2194-1599 SN - 2194-1602 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -