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‘I went to the City of God’: Gringos, guns and the touristic favela

Bianca Freire-Medeiros
Pages 21-34 | Published online: 09 May 2011

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Patrick Naef. (2023) Walls of resistance: Underground memories and political violence in Colombia. History and Anthropology 0:0, pages 1-22.
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Alana Osbourne. (2019) On a Walking Tour to No Man’s Land: Brokering and Shifting Narratives of Violence in Trench Town, Jamaica. Space and Culture 23:1, pages 48-60.
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Brian Ekdale & David Tuwei. (2016) Ironic Encounters: Posthumanitarian Storytelling in Slum Tourist Media. Communication, Culture & Critique 9:1, pages 49-67.
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Emily LeBaron. (2015) Reimagining the Geography of the Favelas: Pacification, Tourism, and Transformation in Complexo Do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro. Tourism Review International 18:4, pages 269-282.
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Romola Sanyal. (2015) Slum Tours as Politics: Global Urbanism and Representations of Poverty. International Political Sociology 9:1, pages 93-96.
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