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Volunteer Tourism: Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times: New Directions in Tourism Analysis

Autor Mary Mostafanezhad
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mai 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138082526
ISBN-10: 113808252X
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria New Directions in Tourism Analysis

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Dr Mary Mostafanezhad is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Hawai'i.

Recenzii

'This pioneering study seeks to dispel the naïve humanitarian illusions about voluntarism as a panacea for the social ills of neoliberal state policies and to show how that activity became commodified and absorbed by the capitalist system, thus unwittingly helping to strengthen it. Its key message is that good intentions can be exploited to maintain the social conditions they seek to ameliorate.' Erik Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ’Morality tourism is the latest stage in the evolution of means to satisfy the biopsychosocial needs of Western (and non-Western) urban, alienated middle classes. Mary Mostafanezhad’s long experience in Northern Thailand where a plethora of NGOs and volunteers express the Peace Corps effect allows her to show us the possibilities of both danger and hope for sentimentality-based development activities, contextualized by her erudite discussion of our neoliberal world system.’ Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley, USA ’While excoriating volunteer tourism's neoliberal underpinnings, this marvellous study also documents its transformative cosmopolitan hope for tourists, humanitarian organizations, and host communities that engage. A must read for anyone wanting to understand tourism's potential for social justice, and why this is so difficult to achieve.’ Margaret Byrne Swain, University of California, Davis, USA 'From Mostafanezhad’s engagement with geopolitics of hope, it is clear that she wishes to show the emancipatory potential underlying this tourism niche. The value of this book is unmistakable as Mostafanezhad’s optimistic tone but theoretically charged discussions further moral deliberations of humanitarianism and tourism by illuminating current policies and practices that ultimately sustain the political, economic, and social inequalities on which volunteer tourism is based.' Annals of Tourism Research

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introduction: Sentimental Sojourns in Northern Thailand; Chapter 2 “Making a Difference One Village at a Time”: Volunteer Tourism and the Peace Corps Effect; Chapter 3 The Seduction of Development: NGOs and Alternative Tourism in Northern Thailand; Chapter 4 Cosmopolitan Empathy, New Social Movements and the Moral Economy of Volunteer Tourism; Chapter 5 The Cultural Politics of Sentimentality in Volunteer Tourism; Chapter 6 Converging Interests? Cross-Cultural Authenticity in Volunteer Tourism; Chapter 7 Conclusion—Re-mapping the Movement: Popular Humanitarianism and the Geopolitics of Hope in Volunteer Tourism;

Descriere

This first full length treatment of volunteer tourism taking a longitudinal ethnographic approach offers 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. 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.