Slum Travelers
Title | Slum Travelers PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Ross |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780520249059 |
Ellen Ross has collected impressions from some of the half a million women involved in philanthropy by the 1890s, most of them active in the London slums. The contributors include Sylvia Pankhurst and Beatrice Webb, as well as many more less well known figures.
Slum Tourism
Title | Slum Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | Fabian Frenzel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415698782 |
This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth.
Slums
Title | Slums PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Mayne |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2017-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1780238878 |
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
Giving Women
Title | Giving Women PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Rappoport |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2012-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199772606 |
Drawing on novels, poetry, periodicals, and political pamphlets, Giving Women examines the literary expression and cultural consequences of gift exchange among English women from the 1820s until the end of the First World War.
Urban Tourism in the Global South
Title | Urban Tourism in the Global South PDF eBook |
Author | Christian M. Rogerson |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2021-07-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3030715477 |
This book examines and addresses the particular character of urban tourism occurring in the global South. It presents research essays on tourism in urban areas of South Africa, a country which is associated with big 5 nature tourism but where urban areas are also major tourism destinations. The book contextualizes urban tourism in South Africa as part of ‘the other half of urban tourism’, an overlooked but energetic scholarship which is emerging on urban places in the global South. The volume moves to present a collection of original material variously on national perspectives on urban tourism following by a cluster of city level perspectives. The last three contributions turn to the role of tourism in small towns, the bottom rung in the urban settlement system. Issues of concern include gastronomic tourism, VFR travel, airportscapes, climate change, AirBnb and creative tourism. Finally, as COVID-19 is potentially a defining historical moment for urban tourism, the volume incorporates historical research perspectives in order to address the overwhelming ‘present-mindedness’ of mainstream urban tourism writings. The book highlights the challenges and opportunities for tourism development in the environment of the urban global South and is relevant to scholars of both tourism and urban studies as well as researchers in development studies.
British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930
Title | British Women Writers and the Short Story, 1850-1930 PDF eBook |
Author | K. Krueger |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2014-03-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137359242 |
This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained.
Topographies of Popular Culture
Title | Topographies of Popular Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Maarit Piipponen |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2016-08-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 144389916X |
Topographies of Popular Culture departs from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere. By studying the spatial and topographic imaginations at work in popular culture, the book identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular. In combining the study of popular texts with a broad variety of geographical contexts, the volume presents a global and cross-cultural approach to popular culture’s topographies. In part, Topographies of Popular Culture takes its cue from recent theorisations of spatiality in the field of critical theory, and from such global transformations as the processes and after-effects of decolonisation and globalisation. It contemplates the spatiality of genre and the interactions between the local and the global, as well as the increasing circulation and adaptation of popular texts across the globe. The ten individual chapters analyse the spaces of popular culture at a scale that extends from an individual’s everyday experience to genuinely global questions, offering new theoretical and analytical insights into the relation between spatiality and the popular.