New research: Slum Tourism in the Americas

Commodifying Urban Poverty and Violence

18 December 2013

This trilateral research project investigates slum tourism in Kingston, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro, theorizing the commodification of urban poverty and violence in the context of global mobilities and urban political economies of spectacle.

Three-year NWO/DFG/ESRC ORA Plus research project (€203,695 for Dutch subproject of Rivke Jaffe, AISSR), with Eveline Dürr (LMU, Germany) and Gareth Jones (LSE, UK) as joint PIs. 

Published by  AISSR