Jim Butcher, Peter Smith

Volunteer Tourism

The lifestyle politics of international development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415749015
• ISBN-10: 0415749018
• Artikelnr.: 39594722

Autorenporträt

Jim Butcher teaches at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. His research interests lie in the sociology and politics of tourism. Peter Smith teaches at St Mary's University, UK. His main areas of interest lie in the sociology of volunteer and ecotourism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing the lifestyle politics of volunteer tourism 2. From Peace
Corps to Volunteer Holidays 3. Volunteer tourism in development perspective
4. The Personal and the Political in Volunteer Tourism 5. The lifestyle
politics of volunteer tourism 6. Volunteer tourism and global citizenship
7. The Volunteers: Postcolonial, Neoliberal or Diminished Subjects? 8.
Conclusion