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Touring Katutura!

  • 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,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.show moreshow less

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Author details:Malte Steinbrink, Michael Buning, Martin Legant, Berenike Schauwinhold, Tore Süßenguth
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95917
ISBN:978-3-86956-384-8
ISSN:2194-1599
ISSN:2194-1602
Subtitle (English):Poverty, Tourism, and Poverty Tourism in Windhoek, Namibia
Publication series (Volume number):Potsdamer Geographische Praxis (11)
Publisher:Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Place of publishing:Potsdam
Publication type:Monograph/Edited Volume
Language:English
Year of first publication:2016
Publication year:2016
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Publishing institution:Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Release date:2016/11/08
Tag:Armut; Authentizität; Katutura; Namibia; Slumming; Slumtourismus; Tourismus; Township; Townshiptourismus; Windhoek
Katutura; Namibia; Windhoek; authenticity; poverty; slum tourism; slumming; tourism; township; township tourism
Number of pages:144
RVK - Regensburg classification:RS 72633 , RS 72783 , LB 57580
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie
DDC classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Collection(s):Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Potsdamer Geographische Praxis, ISSN 2194-1602
Publishing method:Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Institution name at the time of the publication:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geographie
License (German):License LogoKeine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
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Touring Katutura! : Poverty, Tourism, and Poverty Tourism in Windhoek, Namibia / Malte Steinbrink, Michael Buning, Martin Legant, Berenike Schauwinhold, Tore Süßenguth. – Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2016. – 143 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
(Potsdamer Geographische Praxis ; 11)
ISSN (print) 2194-1599
ISSN (online) 2194-1602
ISBN 978-3-86956-384-8
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