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By Mary Mostafanezhad

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ISBN-13: 9781138082526

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Crossing disciplinary and chronological barriers, Volunteer Tourism: renowned Humanitarianism in Neoliberal occasions is the 1st full-length remedy of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal ethnographic point of view. Volunteer tourism, one of many quickest transforming into area of interest tourism markets on the planet, is one of those tourism within which travelers pay to take part in conservation, humanitarian or improvement orientated tasks. Volunteer Tourism is a finished and comparative examine of the views of Thai host neighborhood individuals, NGO practitioners and foreign volunteer travelers. The e-book hence shines an ethnographic lens onto the complexities and contradictions of the volunteer tourism adventure in northern Thailand. Drawing on cross-disciplinary views in geography and anthropology in addition to improvement, tourism and cultural reviews, Volunteer Tourism illustrates how a spotlight on sentimentality within the volunteer tourism come upon obscures the structural inequalities on which the adventure relies. this sort of concentration situates volunteer tourism in the commodification and sentimentalization of improvement and worldwide justice agendas, which hail the recent ethical customer and reframe questions of structural inequality as questions of person morality. consequently, albeit inadvertently, the perform of volunteer tourism serves the continuing enlargement of the cultural logics and monetary practices of neoliberalism.

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