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Volunteer Tourism - The lifestyle politics of international development (Paperback)
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Volunteer Tourism - The lifestyle politics of international development (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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Just a generation ago the notion that holidays should be invested
with ethical and political significance would have sounded odd.
Today it is part of the lifestyle political landscape. Volunteer
tourism is indicative of the growth of lifestyle strategies
intended to exhibit care and responsibility towards others less
fortunate, strategies aligned closely with developing one's ethical
identity and sense of global responsibility. It sits alongside
telethons, pay-per-click, Fair Trade and ethical consumption
generally as a way to "make a difference". Volunteer tourism
involves a personal mission to address the political question of
development. It draws upon the private virtues of care and
responsibility and disavows political narratives beyond this.
Critics argue that this leaves the volunteers as unwitting carriers
of damaging neoliberal or postcolonial assumptions, whilst
advocates see it as offering creative and practical ways to build a
new ethical politics. By contrast, this volume analyses volunteer
tourism as indicative of a retreat from public politics into the
realm of private experience, and as an expression of diminished
political and moral agency. This thought provoking book draws on
development, political and sociological theory and is essential
reading for students, researchers and academics interested in the
phenomenon of volunteer tourism and the politics of lifestyle that
it represents.
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