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Touring Katutura!

Poverty, Tourism, and Poverty Tourism in Windhoek, Namibia

By: Steinbrink, Malte,Buning, Michael,Legant, Martin,Schauwinhold, Berenike,Süßenguth, Tore

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Touring Katutura!

Poverty, Tourism, and Poverty Tourism in Windhoek, Namibia

By: Steinbrink, Malte,Buning, Michael,Legant, Martin,Schauwinhold, Berenike,Süßenguth, Tore

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.

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148

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Universitätsverlag Potsdam

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ISBN 10

3869563842

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9783869563848

Africa on the Move

Migration, Translocal Livelihoods and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Malte Steinbrink,Hannah Niedenführ

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Africa on the Move

Migration, Translocal Livelihoods and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Malte Steinbrink,Hannah Niedenführ

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies. It offers an overview of the research landscape and introduces an agency-centered theoretical model that provides a conceptual framework for translocality. The authors Malte Steinbrink and Hannah Niedenführ plead for a translocal approach to social transformation, showing how the translocality of livelihoods is shaping the lives of half a billion people on the continent and impacting local conditions. Using an action-oriented approach, the book analyzes the effects of translocal livelihoods on diverse aspects of economic, environmental and social change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The study thus makes an innovative contribution not only to migration research and development studies but also to the discussion around the policy and practice of development cooperation and planning. It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities. The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

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241

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Springer Nature

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303022841X

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9783030228415

Townships as Attraction

An Empirical Study of Township Tourism in Cape Town

By: Manfred Rolfes,Malte Steinbrink,Christina Uhl

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Townships as Attraction

An Empirical Study of Township Tourism in Cape Town

By: Manfred Rolfes,Malte Steinbrink,Christina Uhl

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 the subject of a geographic field study, which was undertaken during a student research project of Potsdam University in 2007. The text presents the empirical results of the field study, and demonstrates how townships are constructed as spaces of tourism."--Publisher's description.

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