Postcolonial Placemaking: Black Women and Township Tourism in South Africa

Since South Africa's democratization in 1994, Cape Town has become an international tourism hotspot while its peripheral townships remain burdened by poverty and crime. Township tourism promises to bring tourists across the divide of racial segregation. Black South African women, insulted by notions of "slum tourism" and attuned to an economic opportunity, have created hospitality markets by turning their township homes into bed and breakfasts and guesthouses. In Postcolonial Placemaking, A...