Touristic mobilities in India’s slum spaces

Diekmann, Anya; Hannam, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2012.02.005

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“…Fieldwork was conducted in several independent trips in 2013 and 2014 (see Table 2). Slum tourism in Dharavi has been the object of several studies in recent years, which allowed us to validate our observations with recourse to this literature (Meschkank 2010(Meschkank , 2012Diekmann & Hannam 2012;Dyson 2012;Rolfes & Meschkank 2013). …”

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“…In this context it is particularly important that tour guides provide access, security, and direction to tourists (George & Booyens, 2014). Diekmann and Hannam (2012), in their analysis of slum tourism in India, pointed to the importance of 'more than representational' experiences. Tourists may be regularly confronted with visual representations of slums in news and other media, but they lack, and hence desire, the sensory experience of being in a slum.…”

Section: Tour Guiding In Slum Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making Slums Into Attractions: The Role of Tour Guiding in the Slum Tourism Development in Kibera and Dharavi

Frenzel

Blakeman

2015

Tourism Review International

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This paper investigates how slums are made into a tourism attraction. We focus in particular on the role of tour guides and tour guiding operations in this process. In tourism literature in general tour guiding has been subject to much reflection and debate. However, tour guides' role in enabling tourism in new places, in the making of attractions has not been discussed much. Also, in the emerging research on slum tourism little attention has been given to tour guides and their roles. This paper addresses both research gaps in providing insights into tour guiding in slum tourism, and by addressing the roles of tour guides in attraction-making through a comparative analysis of tourism in two slums, Dharavi, in Mumbai, India, and Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya. Based on empirical research of tour guiding operations we found that different levels of formality in tour guiding co-exist across destinations. Formal tour guiding operations are more successful in establishing a slum as an attraction as they enable significant growth in tourist numbers. However, formal tour guiding operations and strong international participation in their foundation are factors that seem to undermine to some extent the creation of intimate and authentic encounters in tour guiding, preferred by some tourists. This leaves space for more informal tour guiding, with strong local ties, which are better placed to produce intimate experiences.

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Section: Tour Guiding In Slum Tourismmentioning

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Making Slums Into Attractions: The Role of Tour Guiding in the Slum Tourism Development in Kibera and Dharavi

Frenzel

Blakeman

2015

Tourism Review International

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“…A number of authors have suggested that while tours might be predicated on an Orientalist fantasy in which slums operate as sexualised, exotic or primitive spaces, both operators and participants show a motivation and capacity to transcend these representations, challenging some preconceptions about the poor (Dyson 2012;Meschkank 2011;Rolfes 2010;Linke 2012;Diekmann and Hannam, 2012;Freire-Medeiros, 2011 bathing, negotiating prices with prostitutes, and the shock at witnessing old people abandoned at the dying grounds (Sen 2008). The experience provoked participants to reflect on their good 'luck', but also justified a sense that they had taken the right life choices and of cultural superiority.…”

Section: The Slum As Spectaclementioning

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Spectacle and Suffering: The Mumbai slum as a worlded space

Jones

Sanyal

2015

Geoforum

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This paper examines the relationship between spectacle and worlding. Using Dharavi as the site (cite) of analysis, the paper considers how slum tours, art and television documentaries produce particular narratives and imaginaries of the slum. We move beyond the discussions of voyeurism and the aestheticization of poverty and suggest, that the knowledge of the slum is entangled with the motives, preconceptions and experiences of multiple actors, giving the slum a relation with the 'world' that holds opportunities to disrupt hegemonic views of urbanism in Mumbai, while centering its own position as a locus of knowledge on urban poverty. The paper suggests that analysing the spectacle of the slum through the lens of worlding offers ways to think critically of how urban space is reordered and urban knowledge is produced and circulated.

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“…More-than-representational theory stresses the importance of embodied performances and practices, emotions and affects that are irreducible to textual representations (Lorimer 2007(Lorimer , 2008Nash 2000). From this perspective, media representations of particular tourism places, such as slums in India or hiking trails in New Zealand, are examined in relationship to tourists' performances, expectations, and affective responses to these places (Diekmann and Hannam 2012;Reis 2012).…”

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“…Andrades-Caldito, Sánchez-Rivero, and Pulido-Fernández 2013;Gotham 2007;Govers, Go, and Kumar 2007;Pena, Jamilena, and Molina 2012;Tasci, Gartner, and Cavusgil 2007). This research typically uses quantitative measures to examine how the cognitive and emotive qualities of tourist places are defined and taken up by tourists, with a subset of work focusing on the ways in which tourism destination images circulate through media such as film, travel brochures, television advertisements, and newspapers (Diekmann and Hannam 2012;Francesconi 2011;Pan 2011;Stepchenkova and Eales 2011). We build on this work by examining narratives of tourism mobility that circulate through news media coverage of tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador from Canada, the USA, and the UK between 1992 and 2010, exploring prominent narratives as well as silences.…”

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From Fisheries Decline to Tourism Destination: Mass Media, Tourism Mobility, and the Newfoundland Coastal Environment

Stoddart

Sodero

2014

Mobilities

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In this paper, we examine narratives of tourism mobility circulated through print news media coverage of Newfoundland published in Canada, the UK, and the USA between 1992 and 2010. Initially articles were situated within a larger narrative of fisheries collapse, rural decline, and out-migration. In recent years, however, the discourse shifted to emphasize how non-human nature, including whales, icebergs, and national parks, serves as a tourism attractor, yielding benefits for rural communities. We draw on Latour's work on political ecology, as well as on Urry's work on tourism, mobility, and climate change, to analyze the eco-political implications of media accounts of tourism and the Newfoundland coastal environment.

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Touristic mobilities in India’s slum spaces

Cited by 57 publications

References 47 publications

Making Slums Into Attractions: The Role of Tour Guiding in the Slum Tourism Development in Kibera and Dharavi

Making Slums Into Attractions: The Role of Tour Guiding in the Slum Tourism Development in Kibera and Dharavi

Spectacle and Suffering: The Mumbai slum as a worlded space

From Fisheries Decline to Tourism Destination: Mass Media, Tourism Mobility, and the Newfoundland Coastal Environment

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