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

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.

• | Author: Jim Butcher, Peter Smith
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 148 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138080535
• | ISBN-13: 9781138080539