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Volunteer Tourism: The lifestyle politics of international development (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility) - Hardcover

Buch 61 von 103: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Butcher, Jim; Smith, Peter

 
9780415749015: Volunteer Tourism: The lifestyle politics of international development (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415749018 ISBN 13: 9780415749015
Verlag: Routledge, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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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Jim Butcher teaches at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His research interests lie in the sociology and politics of tourism.

Peter Smith teaches at St Mary's University, UK. His main areas of interest lie in the sociology of volunteer and ecotourism.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415749018
ISBN 13 
9780415749015
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
164
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