The geopolitics of volunteer tourism

Henry, Jacob; Mostafanezhad, Mary

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“…When it comes to volunteer tourism, specifically, the study of spatial differentiation and development of projects initially covered the analysis of the human development index (HDI) influence (Thomazos & Butler, 2009), the previous occurrence of catastrophic events in the given region (Thomazos & Butler, 2009;Wearing & McGehee, 2013), the question of what parts of the world volunteers think of as "needy spaces seeking compassionate service" (Mostafanezhad, 2013), the places where environmental issues are pressing (Wearing, 2001) and, by contrast, the consideration of more conventional tourist market driving forces (Thomazos & Butler, 2009), such as safety, the attractiveness of the location and its accessibility (Keese, 2011). Only recently, the geopolitical perspective was used to analyse the positioning of today's volunteer tourism (Henry, 2019), its material and discursive implications for teaching, conservation and infrastructure tasks (Henry & Mostafanezhad, 2019).…”

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Progress in volunteer tourism research: From niche tourism curiosity to experience-based improvements

Lis,

Grzelak-Kostulska,

Dymitrow

2023

Geogr. Pol.

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This paper reviews the latest research directions and conceptual developments on the phenomenon of volunteer tourism. The last review was published in 2017, so it is time to summarize and re-evaluate how voluntourism has evolved. The paper projects future developments within voluntourism by showcasing some critical changes in the participants’ attitudes. This is likely to influence how, where and by whom volunteering initiatives will be implemented. The contributions of this paper are assembling an overview of efforts to formulate a definition of voluntourism and providing clues as to what socio-cultural and market- forces will drive its evolution in the future.

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Progress in volunteer tourism research: From niche tourism curiosity to experience-based improvements

Lis,

Grzelak-Kostulska,

Dymitrow

2023

Geogr. Pol.

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“…The literature focusing on international volunteer tourism has often presented programmes and initiatives designed to support populations based in the global South as “backdrops.” These programmes and initiatives refer to orphanages, shelters, residential care, education and training, or other forms of community organisation involving populations framed in policy and public discourses as “vulnerable,” “at risk,” “poor,” and in need of protection, care, aid, or development (Baillie Smith & Jenkins, 2017; Burrai et al, 2017; Henry & Mostafanezhad, 2019; Sin et al, 2015). Some recent work on the geographies of international volunteering has sought in particular to attend to affect, emotion, and forms of embodiment on the part of the volunteers (Everingham, 2016; Frazer & Waitt, 2016; Griffiths, 2015, 2018; Griffiths & Brown, 2017; cf.…”

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“…and public discourses as "vulnerable," "at risk," "poor," and in need of protection, care, aid, or development (Baillie Smith & Jenkins, 2017;Burrai et al, 2017;Henry & Mostafanezhad, 2019;Sin et al, 2015). Some recent work on the geographies of international volunteering has sought in particular to attend to affect, emotion, and forms of embodiment on the part of the volunteers (Everingham, 2016;Frazer & Waitt, 2016;Griffiths, 2015Griffiths, , 2018Griffiths & Brown, 2017;cf.…”

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Affective life, “vulnerable” youths, and international volunteering in a residential care programme in Cusco, Peru

Lin

Minca

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper critically engages with the implications of the "affect turn" in the geographies of development and volunteering. By way of considering "affective life" at a residential youth care centre in Peru through an ethnographic study, we aim to contribute to current discussions of "(self-)transformation" taking place through affectivity in the experience of volunteering. Conceptually, our approach to investigating "affective life" and volunteering involves two steps. First, we critically review this body of work's recent focus on the individualistic mode of volunteer self-transformation in encountering "vulnerable others." We identify the need to think about affect and embodiment also from the perspectives of the "vulnerable" groups whose lives are entangled with the presence of international volunteering. Second, we argue for an affect-informed approach to socio-politically shaped vulnerability, with a particular emphasis on lived experiences and affective capacities related to enduring social and material conditions. Against the backdrop of marginalisation of adolescent mothers from rural and indigenous backgrounds, many of whom are survivors of sexual abuse, we analyse the experiences of these youths living at a specific residential care centre and interacting with volunteers on a daily basis. In doing so, we employ a series of perspectives from the residents, while taking into account the organisational environment. We also show the complex ways in which resident-volunteer encounters are at play in life-enhancing affective states, capacities, and relations emerging among the residents. Our findings on the residents' self-and shared capacity of transformation highlights the importance of attending to the spatialities of affective life in academic work focused on the contemporary geographies of international volunteering.

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“…The literature focusing on international volunteer tourism has often presented programmes and initiatives designed to support populations based in the global South as "backdrops". These programmes and initiatives refer to orphanages, shelters, residential care, education and training, or other forms of community organization involving populations framed in policy and public discourses as "vulnerable", "at risk", "poor" and in need of protection, care, aid or development (Baillie Smith and Jenkins, 2017;Burrai et al, 2017;Henry and Mostafanezhad, 2019;Sin et al, 2015). Some recent work on the geographies of international volunteering has sought in particular to attend to affect, emotion and forms of embodiment on the part of the volunteers (Everingham, 2016;Frazer and Waitt, 2016;Griffiths, 2015Griffiths, , 2018Griffiths and Brown, 2017;cf.…”

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For an analytics of affective life: marginalized youths, social interventions and development affectspheres in Cusco, Peru

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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Putting intervention and marginalization in context 1.2 Studying "alternative" interventions from youths' perspectives 1.3 Deploying analytics of "affective life" for critical inquiry CHAPTER 2: AFFECT, EMBODIMENT AND "ALTERNATIVE" INTERVENTIONS IN YOUNG PEOPLE'S WELFARE: A FRAMEWORK 2.1 Geographies of children and youth 2.1.1 Young people's perspectives and experiences: affect and embodiment for conceptual and theoretical innovation 2.1.2 Interventions in young people's lives and welfare: affect and "alternative" interventions 2.2 Geographies of development and volunteering 2.3 A Berlantian approach to embodiment and affective life CHAPTER 3: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF AFFECTIVE LIFE AND A MULTI-METHOD APPROACH TO YOUTHS' EXPRESSIONS 3.1 Research design focusing on young participants' "expressions" 3.2 Descriptions of the youths and the two organizations 3.2.1 Notes on case selection 3.2.2 Runachay 3.2.3 CARA 3.3 An ethnographic approach to affective life 3.3.1 Positionality and conduct in the field 3.3.2 Ethnographic evidence of affective life? A quandary 3.4 The mosaic design for generating expressions with young participants 3.4.1 Informed consent 3.4.2 In-depth interviews with elicitation activities 3.4.3 Diary/notebook 3.5 Data analysis and content of the following two chapters XI Contents CHAPTER 4: AFFIRMATIVE BIOPOLITICS: SOCIAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FOR QUECHUA GIRLS IN THE POST-COLONIAL "AFFECTSPHERE" OF CUSCO, PERU 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Cruel optimism, affectsphere, affirmative biopolitics 4.3 The Runachay social center and methodological notes 4.4 The affective biopolitics of "getting ahead" 4.5 The promises of domestic work 4.5.1 The affective pedagogy of saving 4.5.2 Apprehending gendered work 4.6 The promises of tourism and hospitality work 4.6.1 Professional bartending and enterprising subjectivities 4.6.2 Precarious tourism, its aspirants, and discontents 4.7 Conclusion CHAPTER 5: AFFECTIVE LIFE, "VULNERABLE" YOUTHS AND INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERING IN A RESIDENTIAL CARE PROGRAMME IN CUSCO, PERU 1 The rationale and substance of what I tentatively addressed as "alternative" interventions here can be influenced by diverse ideologies and cultural values, and it is not my thesis's intention to readily qualify any such intervention as "progressive", "radical" or otherwise (see also the discussion on Kraftl, 2015 in Chapter 2). For other uses of the term "alternative" in discussions related to "alternative" care or education interventions, see

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The geopolitics of volunteer tourism

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Progress in volunteer tourism research: From niche tourism curiosity to experience-based improvements

Progress in volunteer tourism research: From niche tourism curiosity to experience-based improvements

Affective life, “vulnerable” youths, and international volunteering in a residential care programme in Cusco, Peru

For an analytics of affective life: marginalized youths, social interventions and development affectspheres in Cusco, Peru

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