Summary of my research:
Frenzel F (2016) Slumming it – the tourist valorisation of urban poverty, Zed Books, London
Frenzel F (2013), Slum Tourism in the Context of the Poverty (Relief) Debate in Die Erde Die Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, 144 (2), pp. 117-128
Frenzel F, Boehm S, Quinton P, Sullivan S, Spicer A, Young Z (2011) Comparing Alternative Media in North and South, Environment and Planning A 35(4) P. 1173-1189
Full Listing:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/people/dr-fabian-frenzel
Frenzel F (2013), Slum Tourism in the Context of the Poverty (Relief) Debate in Die Erde Die Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, 144 (2), pp. 117-128
Frenzel F, Boehm S, Quinton P, Sullivan S, Spicer A, Young Z (2011) Comparing Alternative Media in North and South, Environment and Planning A 35(4) P. 1173-1189
Full Listing:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/people/dr-fabian-frenzel
Motivation for this workshop
My research interests concern the intersection of mobility, organisation and politics. Part of my recent research has focused on tourism in areas of urban poverty, seeking to understand the valorisation of urban poverty in tourism imaginaries and practices. Broadly defined my reading of tourism includes, inter alia international solidarity travel, volunteering and also travel narratives.
Tourism valorisations may disturb local value regimes, offering marginalised communities trans-local avenues for recognition. Tourism thus increases the resonances of local story telling and media practices. I have conducted empirical research and fieldwork in a number of cities in developing countries, including Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cape Town, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro.
A new avenue of my research is concerned with the development of voice and recognition for marginalized communities and people, via means of mobile technologies in tourism and grass roots media production.
I am currently working on a research project that aims to analyze online testimonies of tourists and volunteers who travel to and in support of marginalized communities. In addition to my own previous experience with qualitative research methods, I am in the process of learning text analysis tools to be able to survey large quantities of social media statements of travellers.
The workshop will help me to learn about different mobile methods, complementing my own research and scholarship on enabling tourism, including educational tourism such as field trips, to be more effective for rural poverty alleviation. I am also expecting inspirational insights into mobile methods useful for my teaching practice, in particular AR and VR apps.
Tourism valorisations may disturb local value regimes, offering marginalised communities trans-local avenues for recognition. Tourism thus increases the resonances of local story telling and media practices. I have conducted empirical research and fieldwork in a number of cities in developing countries, including Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cape Town, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro.
A new avenue of my research is concerned with the development of voice and recognition for marginalized communities and people, via means of mobile technologies in tourism and grass roots media production.
I am currently working on a research project that aims to analyze online testimonies of tourists and volunteers who travel to and in support of marginalized communities. In addition to my own previous experience with qualitative research methods, I am in the process of learning text analysis tools to be able to survey large quantities of social media statements of travellers.
The workshop will help me to learn about different mobile methods, complementing my own research and scholarship on enabling tourism, including educational tourism such as field trips, to be more effective for rural poverty alleviation. I am also expecting inspirational insights into mobile methods useful for my teaching practice, in particular AR and VR apps.
Future research intentions:
I am looking forward to learning and sharing my knowledge with those present. In the context of international work, I hope to be able to establish future collaborations with other researchers on questions such as tourism’s role in empowering communities, alleviating poverty and being a tool to enable exchanges.