CULT 320, Fall 2014

1. CULT 320:
Globalization and Culture
Kara Heitz, 10/30/2014

2. Questions:
• Why do people go on “slum tours”? What do they get out of the
experience?
• How did slum tourism and poverty tourism (i.e. “slumming”)
develop historically? What are similarities and differences
between slum tours in the past and in current times?
• Steinbrink argues that “… new trends in tourism are never
created out of nothing. They draw upon more or less known
images and ideas about unfamiliar and distant regions and their
inhabitants” (Steinbrink, 214). What do tourists expect to see in
the slum? How do they imagine and define the “others” found in
slums in contrast to themselves?
• What are some of the ethical issues associated with slum
tourism?

3. Punch Magazine, 1884

4. New York Times; Sept. 14, 1884 A "slumming tour" in Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper (Dec 5, 1885)

5. http://www.realitytoursandtravel.com/slum-tours.html

6. http://www.township
tourscapetown.co.za/

7. http://www.emoya.co.za/p23/accommodation/shanty-town-for-a-unique-
accommodation-experience-in-bloemfontein.html

8. http://bealocal.com/tours/
favela-funk-party

9. http://www.graylineneworleans.com/hurricane-katrina-tour.html