Volunteer Tourism: Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times

by Mary Mostafanezhad

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409469530
• ISBN13: 9781409469537
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"