@article{ref1,
title="Brokers and tours: selling urban poverty and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean",
journal="Space and culture",
year="2020",
author="Dürr, Eveline and Jaffe, Rivke and Jones, Gareth A.",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="4-14",
abstract="This article explores how so-called &quot;slum&quot; tourism commodifies poverty and violence, transforming urban deprivation into a tourism product. In particular, we pay ethnographic attention to the role of brokers who mediate encounters between residents and tourists. The article explores how brokers--tour guides, art curators and civil society organizations--work to mediate power structures and enact a specific representational-performative politics. In so doing, brokers play a key role in aestheticizing and performing poverty and violence and converting disadvantaged spaces into a tourist product. We argue that brokers are vital to the reproduction of existing inequalities and to the formation of new social relationships and subjectivities.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1206-3312",
doi="10.1177/1206331219865684",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331219865684"
}