Volunteer tourism : popular humanitarianism in neoliberal times /
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 th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England :
Ashgate Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Series: | New directions in tourism analysis.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 obscure ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409469544 (electronic bk.) 1409469549 (electronic bk.) |