Favela tours : building otherness in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Apchain, Thomas (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2024.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Science, society and new technologies series. Tourism and mobility systems set ; v.6.
Subjects:	Tourism > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro. Culture and tourism > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro. Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Invention of the Tourist Favela
1.1. The favela in the imaginary
1.2. The favelas of tourism
1.2.1. The favela, a relative urban category
1.2.2. Tourist favelas: Rocinha, Santa Marta and Vidigal
1.3. The rise of the favela tour, contextual elements
1.3.1. Mega-events and favela tours
1.3.2. Pacification
1.3.3. Tourism and pacification
1.4. History of the favela tours
1.4.1. 1992-2008: the pioneers of favela tour success
1.4.2. 2008-2016: the rise of the favela tours
Chapter 2. Visiting the Favela
2.1. A typical excursion with Favela Tour
2.1.1. On the way to the favela
2.1.2. Visiting Rocinha
2.1.3. Stop in Vila Canoas
2.2. Constants and variations of the favela tour model
2.2.1. The common foundation of favela tours
2.2.2. Main variations of the favela tour model
Chapter 3. Advantages of Tourist Mediation: The Guides of Rocinha
3.1. The guides, a variety of profiles and issues
3.1.1. Marcelo and Roberto, the external companies and the distanced gaze
3.1.2. Zezinho and Tony, the favela from the inside
3.1.3. Obi, Erik and Paolo, the indigenous guides
3.1.4. Alex and the independent guides
3.2. The privilege of mediation
3.2.1. New political intermediaries?
3.2.2. Away from mediation
Chapter 4. Distinguished Practices, Practices of Distinction
4.1. Criticism and distinction
4.1.1. A valorized practice
4.1.2. A criticized practice
4.1.3. Anti-tourist tourists, between legitimization and criticism
4.1.4. The denial of the tourist setting
4.2. Distinction, the driving force behind tourism in the favelas?
4.2.1. Ritualization and de-ritualization of tourism practices
4.2.2. Distinction in tourism
4.2.3. The legitimate culture of travel.
4.2.4. The functioning of the distinction
Chapter 5. The Authenticity of the Favela
5.1. The favela and the real Brazil
5.2. Praise of the non-touristic
5.2.1. A perpetually renewed tourist opening
5.2.2. The denial of merchants in the favelas
5.3. The authenticity of poverty
5.3.1. The spontaneity of the favelas
5.3.2. A culture of poverty
5.4. Tourism, slum and poverty
Chapter 6. From Exoticism to Authenticity
6.1. Exoticism
6.1.1. Exoticism, deictics and dialectics
6.1.2. Movement in space, travel in time
6.1.3. Exoticism of the end and the end of exoticism
6.2. Authenticity, a scientific exoticism?
6.2.1. Anthropology and authenticity
6.2.2. Uniformity of the world and authenticity
Chapter 7. The Favela in the Market of Otherness
7.1. Authenticism and the crisis of otherness
7.2. Miniature worlds
7.3. Otherness and tourism, between celebration and domestication
Chapter 8. Gazes
8.1. Describing the gazes
8.2. The interactional norms of the gaze
8.2.1. Photographs and norms
8.2.2. From the photograph to the gaze
8.2.3. The gazed and the gazers
8.3. The space of the gaze
8.3.1. The modalities of the gaze
8.3.2. The danger of the gaze
8.3.3. Space of the gaze and authenticity
Chapter 9. Reality and the Tourism Frame
9.1. Narrative frame and experience
9.2. The tourism experience frame
9.2.1. The guide, a professional when it comes to framing
9.2.2. Framing and reframing
9.3. Avoidance and exclusion
Conclusion
References
Index
EULA.