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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811313603321

Autore

Biddle Pippa

Titolo

Ours to explore : privilege, power, and the paradox of voluntourism / / Pippa Biddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska : , : Potomac Books, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781640124783

1-64012-441-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

361.3/7

Soggetti

Volunteer tourism

Tourism - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1866 : a woman in India -- A certain kind of tourism -- Cars, planes, and resorts -- The alternative tourism boomerang -- The age of voluntourism -- Colonial pathologies -- Faith, purpose, and mission -- The development conundrum -- Playing doctor -- Teaching children -- Orphanages -- An indictment -- Turning tide -- The future of voluntourism -- On to an end.

Sommario/riassunto

"Ours to Explore investigates voluntourism's past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon"--