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The Ethics of Poverty TourismKevin OuttersonBoston University School of Law Evan SelingerRochester Institute of Technology - Department of Philosophy June 2, 2009 Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 09-29 Abstract: Poverty tours - actual visits as well as literary and cinematic versions - are characterized as morally controversial trips and condemned in the press as voyeuristic endeavors. In this collaborative essay, we draw from personal experience, legal expertise, and phenomenological philosophy and introduce a conceptual taxonomy that clarifies the circumstances in which observing others has been construed as an immoral use of the gaze. We appeal to this taxonomy to determine which observational circumstances are relevant to the poverty tourism debate. While we do not defend all or even most poverty tourism practices, we do conclude that categorical condemnation of poverty tourism is unjustified.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 23 Keywords: Poverty tours, ethical tourism, justice tourism, alternative globalization, development ethics JEL Classification: I3, I31, J7, J79, K39, Z00 working papers seriesDate posted: June 3, 2009 ; Last revised: November 15, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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