Researchers are heading to Dharavi, Mumbai, to study the impact of slum tours on the residents.

Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:

The article leaves me with more questions than answers.  What do the residents think about the tons of tourists wondering through their winding streets?  The very idea of tourism to see poverty in situ in an authentic slum is riddled with power and cultural imbalances.  Why would wealthy tourists from the developed world want to more fully explore the slums in the developing world?  What do you see as the ‘wrong’ and the ‘right’ within this situation?   Is slum tourism ethical?

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