Just Discourse: The Limits of Truth for the Discourse of Social Justice

Quinby, Lee

doi:10.1080/10714410213689

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“…Here, development realities, such as disease, poor sanitation, a lack of access to potable water and issues in public education systems, become painted as challenges for voluntourists to overcome or rectify (Griffiths, 2015). Together with an application of the ‘lotto logic’ to global inequalities (Quinby, 2002) where the poor are characterized as less fortunate, and ‘living conditions and life are products of a randomized process of luck’ (Simpson, 2005: 689), voluntourism itself becomes apoliticized (Mostafanezhad, 2013). As Griffiths (2015) highlighted, ‘at its worst, the role of ‘difference maker’ – especially when taken on by formally untrained volunteers – ‘can be seen to represent the neo-colonial construction of the westerner as racially and culturally superior’ (Raymond and Hall, 2008: 531)’ (p. 208).…”

Section: Voluntourism In the Third Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media in constructing the ‘Third World’ experience

Sin

2018

Tourist Studies

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This article studies photographic practices in 'voluntourism' alongside the rise of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The advent and widespread use of social media platforms today complicates the ethics of photographic practices, as the ease of sharing photographs accentuates and stirs up the unequal relations between the photographer and the photographed. From a conceptual standpoint, the moral and altruistic underpinnings of volunteer work supposedly differentiate voluntourists from their counterparts in mainstream tourism, who are often assumed to be engaged in commoditized and leisure-based activities. However, existing research suggests that voluntourists do participate in conventionally touristic practices, as the pervasiveness of photography illustrates. Using interviews with 16 voluntourists, this article examines the negotiations behind photo-taking and photo-posting in voluntourism. We also consider the case of Barbie Savior, a satirical Instagram account featuring 'the doll that saved Africa'. The emergence of such online media articles that critique and make fun of voluntourists' depiction of their Third World experience therefore becomes a self-governing mechanism for how one should behave in encountering the Third World, even as voluntourism itself continues to be seen as a viable way of caring for the Third World.

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Section: Voluntourism In the Third Worldmentioning

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Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media in constructing the ‘Third World’ experience

Sin

2018

Tourist Studies

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“…While such reflexivity is interesting, it is also important to question its focus. Namely, students are concentrating on their own position, rather than that of others, and, further, are able to ascribe some form of 'lotto logic' (Quinby, 2002) to the disparities that they observe. 'Lotto logic' is allowed to replace discussions on inequality and oppression.…”

Section: Learning To Be Luckymentioning

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‘Doing development’: the gap year, volunteer‐tourists and a popular practice of development

Simpson

2004

J of Intl Development

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Over the last ten years the gap year has become a popular and publicly recognized phenomenon. One of the most visible forms of this phenomenon has been the emergence of 'third world' volunteer-tourism programmes, which seek to combine the hedonism of tourism with the altruism of development work. Such programmes make the practice of international development doable, knowable and accessible to young travellers. This paper seeks to critique the construction of this public face of development, while also asking, from a pedagogical perspective, what travelling participants learn about 'the others' they encounter on, and through, such programmes.

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Feeling lucky: young adults, housing struggles, and the neoliberal politics of entitlement

Rollwagen,

Mayhew

2023

Housing Studies

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Just Discourse: The Limits of Truth for the Discourse of Social Justice

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media in constructing the ‘Third World’ experience

Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram: Photography and social media in constructing the ‘Third World’ experience

‘Doing development’: the gap year, volunteer‐tourists and a popular practice of development

Feeling lucky: young adults, housing struggles, and the neoliberal politics of entitlement

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