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By Mary Mostafanezhad

Crossing disciplinary and chronological barriers, Volunteer Tourism: renowned Humanitarianism in Neoliberal instances is the 1st full-length remedy of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal ethnographic viewpoint. Volunteer tourism, one of many quickest starting to be area of interest tourism markets on the planet, is a kind of tourism within which travelers pay to take part in conservation, humanitarian or improvement orientated tasks. Volunteer Tourism is a entire and comparative examine of the views of Thai host neighborhood contributors, NGO practitioners and overseas volunteer travelers. The ebook 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. the sort of concentration situates volunteer tourism in the commodification and sentimentalization of improvement and worldwide justice agendas, which hail the hot ethical buyer and reframe questions of structural inequality as questions of person morality. for that reason, albeit inadvertently, the perform of volunteer tourism serves the ongoing enlargement of the cultural logics and financial practices of neoliberalism.

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