TY - JOUR A1 - Rolfes, Manfred T1 - Poverty tourism : theoretical reflections and empirical findings regarding an extraordinary form of tourism Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/x6u6p46u22823453/fulltext.pdf SN - 0343-2521 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burgold, Julia A1 - Rolfes, Manfred T1 - Of voyeuristic safari tours and responsible tourism with educational value observing moral communication in slum and township tourism in Cape Town and Mumbai JF - Die Erde : journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin ; Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin N2 - Sightseeing in the poorest quarters of southern hemisphere cities has been observed occurring in Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai and many other cities. The increasing global interest in touring poor urban environments is accompanied by a strong morally charged debate; so far, this debate has not been critically addressed. This article avoids asking if slum tourism is good or bad, but instead seeks a second-order observation, i.e. to investigate under what conditions the social praxis of slum tourism is considered as good or bad, by processing information on esteem or dis-esteem among tourists and tour providers. Special attention is given to any relation between morality and place, and the thesis posited is that the moral charging of slum tourism is dependent on the presence of specific preconceived notions of slums and poverty. This shall be clarified by means of references to two empirical case studies carried out in (1) Cape Town in 2007 and 2008 and (2) Mumbai in 2009. KW - Slum tourism KW - township tourism KW - morality KW - place Y1 - 2013 SN - 0013-9998 VL - 144 IS - 2 SP - 161 EP - 174 PB - Gesellschaft für Erdkunde CY - Berlin ER - TY - INPR A1 - Burgold, Julia A1 - Frenzel, Fabian A1 - Rolfes, Manfred T1 - Observations on slums and their touristification T2 - Die Erde : journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin ; Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin Y1 - 2013 SN - 0013-9998 VL - 144 IS - 2 SP - CP2 EP - 104 PB - Gesellschaft für Erdkunde CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rolfes, Manfred A1 - Wilhelm, Jan Lorenz T1 - Urban complexity and urban change BT - Co-irritation, co-evolution and co-design with the Potsdam lodestar approach JF - Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis N2 - The chapter illustrates how cities can be understood from a system–theory perspective as complex social systems. It argues that the classical and linear intervention methods are often no (longer) suitable for the complex structure, temporal dynamics and multifaceted processuality of urban development. It offers a systemic and systems theory-inspired method as an alternative approach, which allows for extended possibilities that are more appropriate for dealing with urban development processes. The method was developed on the basis of practical experience and theoretical insights. The approach should demonstrate for local decision-makers potential areas of activity for organising urban changes through co-design. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-429-26226-5 SN - 978-0-367-20562-1 SP - 135 EP - 155 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Rolfes, Manfred A1 - Steinbrink, Malte A1 - Uhl, Christina T1 - Townships as attraction : an empirical study of township tourism in Cape Town N2 - Since the end of the Apartheid international tourism in South Africa has increasingly gained importance for the national economy. The centre of this PKS issue’s attention is a particular form of tourism: Township tourism, i.e. guided tours to the residential areas of the black population. About 300,000 tourists per year visit the townships of Cape Town. The tours are also called Cultural, Social, or Reality Tours. The different aspects of township tourism in Cape Town were subject of a geographic field study, which was undertaken during a student research project of Potsdam University in 2007. The text at hand presents the empirical results of the field study, and demonstrates how townships are constructed as spaces of tourism. N2 - Seit dem Ende der Apartheid gewinnt in Südafrika der internationale Tourismus eine immer größere ökonomische Bedeutung. In diesem PKS-Heft steht eine besondere Form des Tourismus im Mittelpunkt, der Township Tourismus. Dabei handelt es sich um geführte Touren in die Wohngebiete der schwarzen Bevölkerung. Etwa 300.000 Touristen besuchen in Kapstadt jährlich die Townships. Die Touren werden auch als Cultural, Social oder Reality Tours bezeichnet. Im Jahr 2007 untersuchten Potsdamer Geographen/innen im Rahmen eines Studienprojektes die unterschiedlichen Aspekte des Township Tourismus in Kapstadt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die empirischen Ergebnisse dieses Forschungsaufenthaltes vorgestellt. Es wird gezeigt, wie Townships als touristische Räume konstruiert werden. T3 - Praxis Kultur- und Sozialgeographie | PKS - 46 KW - township tourism KW - South Africa KW - Cape Town KW - spatial construction KW - slumming KW - Township Tourismus KW - Südafrika KW - Kapstadt KW - Raumkonstruktion KW - Slumming Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-28947 SN - 978-3-940793-79-9 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -