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Poverty Tourism, Justice And Policy, Kevin Outterson, Evan Selinger, Kyle Whyte May 2011

Poverty Tourism, Justice And Policy, Kevin Outterson, Evan Selinger, Kyle Whyte

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Based on moral grounds, should poverty tourism be subject to specific policy constraints? This article responds by testing poverty tourism against the ethical guideposts of compensation justice, participative justice, and recognition justice, and two case descriptions, favela tours in Rocinha and garbage dump tours in Mazatlan. The argument advanced is that the complexity of the social relationships involved those tours requires policy-relevant research and solutions.