It is 5 Minutes to Midnight | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. NOISE, le bruit de la ville. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Urban Poverty, Spatial Representation and Mobility: Touring a Slum in Mexico :: Issue Article. Abstract This article draws attention to a controversial activity in poor urban neighborhoods.
Slum tourism is a growing business worldwide and simultaneously it is a new form of encounter between the global South and the global North. Following the new mobilities paradigm, I investigate a particular form of slum tourism, which intertwines urban poverty and charity, representation and powerful imaginaries, tourist mobility and transnational lifestyles.
This is the case in Mazatlán, Mexico, where a multidenominational church offers regular tours to the city's garbage dump. I scrutinize the various modes of (im)mobilities and their implications for peoples and places, interconnecting spheres which are conceived of as separate. In conclusion, I outline the ambiguous effects when marginalized spaces become integral parts of the urban representation. Résumé Cet article attire l’attention sur une activité discutable qui se déroule dans les quartiers urbains pauvres. The Billboardization of Metro Manila :: Issue Article. News :: Talkin' 'bout the Ghetto: Popular Culture and Urban Imaginaries of Immobility. Published Date: 05 Sep 2012 Image above: Rivke Jaffe (DJ Sunshine) and Azinta Plantenga (DJ Rudegyal), Leiden, The Netherlands (photo by Faline Plantenga) Black Widow soundsystem, Red Light, Jamaica, 2003 and Stone Love soundsystem, Kingston, Jamaica, 2010 (photos by Rivke Jaffe) by Rivke Jaffe This article by Rivke Jaffe is free to read.
News :: Virtual Issue on Latin American Cities. Published Date: 25 Jul 2012 Picture above: Demolition of Favela Villa Nova Jaguaré and new housing development, São Paolo (photo by Yuri Kazepov, 2009); Pictures from left to right: Junction of Av. Vinte and Três de Maio, São Paolo and Downtown, Rio (photos by Yuri Kazepov, 2009); One of several deterioriated 1970s tower blocks in the Soldati neighborhood of Buenos Aires (photo by Ryan Centner, 2006) Virtual Issue Over the past ten years IJURR has sought to expand its coverage of Latin America cities, developing a critical urban scholarship that does not simply apply North American or European urban and regional theory to the region, but rather views Latin American cities on their own terms and uses their experiences to contribute to a more thoroughly global understanding of urban and regional phenomena. Latin American cities have long been both global and massive. Much of the best work on Latin America is, of course, done by scholars whose native language is either Spanish or Portuguese.
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