ABSTRACT
Post-humanitarianism is characterised by the perceived disappearance of the divide between the sphere of business and charity, just like contemporary, globalised slum tourism, which is situated as both an aid performance and tourist performance. Parallel to this discussion is the question of whether slum tourism functions as soft or hardcore poverty porn, which is a charge that might be levelled against almost any representation of poverty. It was rather the shanty that portrayed poverty falsely that became the object of outrage. The very concept of slum tourism is based on this mixing, and it seems she might support it in other instances but not here. There is however also what Chouliaraki calls a pornographic spectatorial imagination in the review's representation of violence, but the anger in it is undercut by a humorous irony.
