Slum tourism: For the poor, by the poor

Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 66-82

  Basu, Kanika ^a  

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EID: 84874524381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203136751     Document Type: Chapter

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