Poverty Tourism, Justice and Policy

Authors

Kevin Outterson, Boston Univeristy School of LawFollow
Evan Selinger, Rochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy
Kyle Whyte, Michigan State University - Department of Philosophy

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2011

ISSN

1099-9922

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Language

en-US

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Kevin Outterson, Evan Selinger & Kyle Whyte, Poverty Tourism, Justice and Policy , 14 Public Integrity 39 (2011).
Available at: https://doi.org/10.2753/PIN1099-9922140103