Volunteer tourism: the lifestyle politics of international development
jimbutcher.substack.com
A plug for my 2015 book, co-written with Peter Smith http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415749015/ “Butcher and Smith’s fascinating study goes beyond the existing debates on volunteer tourism to consider the changing nature of contemporary politics and international development. They explore how volunteer tourism involves the search for social meaning against the shrinking of the public political imagination. Volunteer tourism assumes significance because of how politics and development have become re-orientated around projects of therapeutic self-realisation as opposed to national material transformation. Indeed they suggest that volunteer tourism outsources the responsibilities of cultivating global citizenship onto the South. The book raises important questions for those of us seeking to understand North-South relations and politics today.”
Volunteer tourism: the lifestyle politics of international development
Volunteer tourism: the lifestyle politics of…
Volunteer tourism: the lifestyle politics of international development
A plug for my 2015 book, co-written with Peter Smith http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415749015/ “Butcher and Smith’s fascinating study goes beyond the existing debates on volunteer tourism to consider the changing nature of contemporary politics and international development. They explore how volunteer tourism involves the search for social meaning against the shrinking of the public political imagination. Volunteer tourism assumes significance because of how politics and development have become re-orientated around projects of therapeutic self-realisation as opposed to national material transformation. Indeed they suggest that volunteer tourism outsources the responsibilities of cultivating global citizenship onto the South. The book raises important questions for those of us seeking to understand North-South relations and politics today.”