Negotiating poverty: The interplay between Dharavi's production and consumption as a tourist destination

Slum Tourism: Poverty, Power and Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 144-158

  Meschkank, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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EID: 84898744038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203136751     Document Type: Chapter

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