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- Title
WOMEN'S LABOUR: A HIGHLIGHT OF POVERTY TOURISM.
- Authors
Desai, Sangeeta
- Abstract
Poverty is marketed in an undignified manner by the tour operators , big organisations and to some extent also by the state development agendas. Women in particular become the face of this poverty. The homes and everyday lives of the poor women do get dissected in the process of 'understanding the local lives'. The struggles and hardships faced by the poor become a source of consumption item for the visitors. "We also did the slums" becomes a necessary catch phrase for the tourists visiting the slums. The effects both positive and negative of slum tourism is necessary to understand. While poverty tourism is not only relevant to urban slum but is experienced in rural areas too. It however gets camouflaged under the name of development. Poor women who are part of the SHG movement are invariably the targets of development tourism. Regular visitors to tribal belts wherein women have made an attempt to change their lives through SHGs have become a common sight. While undoubtedly the SHG movement brings in positive changes from an economic and social empowerment perspective what gets overlooked is that in order to showcase the success of the programme the poor women and the families become fascination object of policy makers.
- Subjects
SLUM tourism; POVERTY; WOMEN employees
- Publication
Research Horizons, 2017, Vol 7, p179
- ISSN
2229-385X
- Publication type
Article