Race and Leisure

Freysinger, Valeria J.; Harris, Othello

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“…Voluntourism is commonly critiqued when a lack of critical reflection is not built into the experience. When voluntourism is positioned as a mere consumable product, rather than as an important social experience, there are risks associated with reinforcing stereotypes and neglecting to address issues of inequality (Freysinger and Harris, 2006; Griffin, 2013; Hammersley, 2014; Simpson, 2004). Frazer and Waitt (2016: 176) suggest that it is timely for tourism scholars to ‘think politically about pain’ in relation to volunteer tourism activity.…”

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Voluntourism as cartography of self: A Deleuzian analysis of a postgraduate visit to India

Bone

2017

Tourist Studies

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Volunteer tourism takes place within neoliberal globalisation and reflects inequalities of privilege and mobility. This qualitative research examined the experiences of young female voluntourists who visited Delhi as part of a trip organised by an Australian University Postgraduate Student Association. The aim was to investigate the motives and potentialities embedded in their experience through interviews and journal contributions. Conceptualisations of mapping (cartography) and territorialisation informed the analysis. We found that participants mainly engaged with the experience on a superficial level within the known territory. This reflects 'soft global citizenship' as participants were uncritical about their interactions with the host community. Voluntourist experiences have the potential to destabilise the self in a process of deterritorialisation, and we contend that this is where change occurs. We bring the philosophical theorising of Deleuze and Guattari and their notions of territorialisation and cartography to the field of tourism and argue that their geophilosophical ideas lead to fruitful insights around negotiating volunteer expectations, tribulations and potential transformations.

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Voluntourism as cartography of self: A Deleuzian analysis of a postgraduate visit to India

Bone

2017

Tourist Studies

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“…Colonial discourse informs the tourist gaze (Hollinshead, 1998(Hollinshead, , 1999Urry, 2002), shaping the experiences sought and interpretations made through touristic experiences. Although interaction is often promoted as a source of cross-cultural bridging it is argued that without thoughtful reflection the experience may only reinforce prior misconceptions (Freysinger & Harris, 2006). In other words, what may be promoted as a force of positive social change may actually reinforce those social structures that are part of the overarching issue (Conran, 2011).…”

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Gap Year Volunteer Tourism Stories: Sharing More Than Memories

Griffin

2013

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

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Volunteer tourism has received increased attention from academics in recent years, mirroring the growth in providers and participation. Volunteer tourism is often considered to be a more sustainable and authentic experience for the visitor, as well as providing benefits for the host community. This paper builds on more recent critical research that considers the historical and cultural context that saw volunteer tourism reach the level of popularity it has today. The gap year, as a sub-set of volunteer tourism, is analysed specifically given its unique context and participant demographic. Interviews with returned gap year volunteer tourists from the UK are analysed, with stories shared demonstrating acceptance, adaptation and rejection of broader societal narratives regarding international development, colonialism and personal growth. Implications for marketers revolve around the encouragement of reflection for participants on the phenomenon and their own personal experience to enhance understanding and satisfaction.

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“…However, according to Freysinger and Harris (2006), previous structural explanations of leisure inequalities have *Email: matthew.atencio@education.ed.ac.uk ignored the existence of power relations and differentiated identities, and thus 'proved inconsistent in their explanatory power … for understanding "race" and leisure ' (p. 257). They argue for more nuanced investigations into how minority ethnic individuals take up multiple identities by engaging with power relations and intersecting discourses of race, class and gender.…”

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‘Freaky is just how I get down’: investigating the fluidity of minority ethnic feminine subjectivities in dance

Atencio

2008

Leisure Studies

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To cite this article: Matthew Atencio (2008) 'Freaky is just how I get down': investigating the fluidity of minority ethnic feminine subjectivities in dance, Leisure Studies, 27:3, 311-327, This article addresses a lacuna of research into minority ethnic young women's leisure participation by specifically focusing on the experiences and embodied subjectivities of two ethnic young women participating in dance. In the context of a qualitative research study based in an American inner-city, post-structural theory is used to signal the operation of intersecting racial, ethnic, gender, and class discourses and power relations. This analysis focuses on how the two young women engaged with dance cultures that were underpinned by particular dance forms; these dance forms arguably reproduced specific versions of 'normalised' femininity. The article then illustrates how the young women actively negotiated their dance cultures in order to construct multiple and shifting minority ethnic subjectivities. Commentary from one young woman, 'Carrie', indicates that she used her high school dance spaces as well as festival and club dance spaces to take up fluid white, black and 'mixed' subjectivities. I then investigate how a Salsa dance space provided the discursive resources through which another young woman, 'Jenny', constructed a proliferating diasporic identity. While Jenny identified as both black and Haitian, her hyperbolic dance performances re-enacted various other subjectivities. These accounts demonstrate the possibility that young women can take up multiple versions of femininity in their leisure participation. These femininities reflect both alignment and resistance to dominant discourses which have ascendancy within young women's leisure contexts.

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Race and Leisure

Cited by 7 publications

References 86 publications

Voluntourism as cartography of self: A Deleuzian analysis of a postgraduate visit to India

Voluntourism as cartography of self: A Deleuzian analysis of a postgraduate visit to India

Gap Year Volunteer Tourism Stories: Sharing More Than Memories

‘Freaky is just how I get down’: investigating the fluidity of minority ethnic feminine subjectivities in dance

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