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An exploration of modern-world urbanization cites a concerning rise in slum life that currently accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world's population, arguing that urban populations are disconnected and exempt from the formal world economy and may represent an explosive convergence of ethnic, religious, and political unrest.
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9781844670222 | Verso Books, March 1, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An exploration of modern-world urbanization cites a concerning rise in slum life that currently accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world's population, arguing that urban populations are disconnected and exempt from the formal world economy and may represent an explosive convergence of ethnic, religious, and political unrest.
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9781784786618 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, October 4, 2016), cover price $16.95
9781844671601 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, September 30, 2007), cover price $19.95
Product Description: Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption...read more
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9780415596541 | Routledge, November 16, 2012, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists.
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9781138822689 | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 10, 2014), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists.
Product Description: Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of âothernessâ, âmoral decayâ, âdeviant libertyâ or âauthenticityâ...read more
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9780415698788 | Routledge, May 17, 2012, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism.
Product Description: Humanity has existed on earth for thousands of years, yet we are just now beginning to experience a kind of community that has never before existedâthe slum community. As the number of slum communities and those living in them continue to rise at an alarming rate, Christians need to examine their role in sharing the hope, joy, healing, and servanthood of Christ to those in despair...read more
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9781932805192 | World Vision, September 1, 2005, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Humanity has existed on earth for thousands of years, yet we are just now beginning to experience a kind of community that has never before existedâthe slum community.
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9781844070367 | Routledge, December 1, 2003, cover price $180.00
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9781844070374 | Routledge, December 1, 2003, cover price $77.95
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9780861322244 | 2 sub edition (South Asia Books, December 1, 1990), cover price $46.00
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