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Alternative Spring Breaks
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Civil Society
community
Cosmopolitan Empathy
cross-cultural empathy
Cross-Cultural Solutions
cultural anthropology
Educational International Exchange Programs
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ethnographic research
experience
Global Justice Agendas
Global Justice Movement
global justice movements
home
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Host Community Members
Humanitarian Gaze
International Volunteer Programs
International Volunteers
members
moral economy
neoliberalism critique
NGO development projects analysis
NGO Member
NGO Practitioner
Northern Thailand
orchard
Orchard Home
Peace Corps
Popular Humanitarianism
Social Movement Participation
Thai People
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Volunteer Tourism
Volunteer Tourism Encounter
Volunteer Tourism Experience
Volunteer Tourism Industry
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409469537
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer Tourism: Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first full-length treatment of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal ethnographic perspective. Volunteer tourism, one of the fastest growing niche tourism markets in the world, is a type of tourism in which tourists pay to participate in conservation, humanitarian or development oriented projects. Volunteer Tourism is a comprehensive and comparative study of the perspectives of Thai host community members, NGO practitioners and international volunteer tourists. The book thus shines an ethnographic lens onto the complexities and contradictions of the volunteer tourism experience in northern Thailand. Drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives in geography and anthropology as well as development, tourism and cultural studies, Volunteer Tourism illustrates how a focus on sentimentality in the volunteer tourism encounter obscures the structural inequalities on which the experience is based. Such a focus situates volunteer tourism within the commodification and sentimentalization of development and global justice agendas, which hail the new moral consumer and reframe questions of structural inequality as questions of individual morality. As a result, albeit inadvertently, the practice of volunteer tourism serves the continued expansion of the cultural logics and economic practices of neoliberalism.
Dr Mary Mostafanezhad is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai'i at MÄnoa, Hawai'i.
