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#slum_tourism

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These tours, as they exist now, simply manifest already ingrained beliefs. They confirm the narrative created by the apartheid system; poverty, dirt and violence only exist in the townships. They do nothing to recreate townships as alternative spaces; nor engender an understanding of poverty as ubiquitous. They rarely allow for a look into the different ways in which people experience oppression within and outside the township (i.e. LGBTI persons, sex workers, and foreigners.) The community performs poverty, whether as tour guides or simply as members of the community invested in the economic returns of the project.

#tourisme