Third World Gap Year Projects: Youth Transitions and the Mediation of Risk

Ansell, Nicola

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“…As with Ansell's (2008) study of gap-year volunteering, the consolidation of volunteering support in universities reviewed in this project falls short of total control of these activities.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Ansell (2008) elaborates this tension between negating risk and celebrating difference is particularly pertinent for volunteering schemes that are spatially constituted such as gap year travel and volunteer tourism. The recent rapid expansion of service industries to provide risk-averse but at the same time 'unique' experiences is indicative of a shift towards more sanitised and mediated experience, though one that Ansell suggests is not indicative of 'totalising control ' (2008: 237).…”

Section: Volunteering Choice and Control Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering

Holdsworth

Brewis²

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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There has been a step change around youth volunteering in the UK in recent years as this once unheralded and taken for granted activity has moved more centre stage, particularly as a key strand of recent Government initiatives directed towards welfare reform, employment and education policies. This article uses the case study of student volunteering to explore the paradox inherent in articulations of volunteering in policy discourses that emphasise self-responsibility for employability and community cohesion. We review the tensions inherent in escalating the expectation that young people should volunteer through situating volunteering as a conduit of control society, and consider how the promotion of participation destabilizes the capacity for sovereign action and choice. Drawing on qualitative research with both HE stakeholders and students, we map out the external policy drivers that universities are reacting to in promoting volunteering, and students' response to these initiatives. Our analysis demonstrates that students resist the expectation that they should volunteer if this is interpreted as devaluing their engagement. Both students and stakeholders recognise that the promotion of volunteering should seek to align institutional practices to promote and support volunteering with young people's own expectations and aspirations.

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Section: Volunteering Choice and Control Societymentioning

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Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering

Holdsworth

Brewis²

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…Not only does the type of activity differ, but duration of project varies, and skill level and age requirements also change. Once considered a marginal activity, a gap year is now considered a rite of passage, although one necessarily for the relatively privileged (Jones 2004;Simpson 2004;Lyons et al 2012;Heath 2007;Ansell 2008). Tourism development is commonly practised particularly often by those aged between 18 and 25 (vrasti 2013) or under 30 (Heath 2007).…”

Section: Tourism Development As Dynamic Mobility: Tourist Volunteermentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

Rickly¹,

Hannam²,

Mostafanezhad³

2016

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This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/ leisure, and host/guest bring. A mobilities approach to tourism and leisure encourages us to think beyond the mobilities of tourists to ways in which tourism and leisure experiences bring other mobilities into sync, or disorder, and as a result re-conceptualises social theory. The anthology stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study to illustrate the advantages of multidisciplinary conversation, and in so doing it challenges how we approach studies of movement-based phenomena and the concept of scale. Part I examines the ways in which mobility informs and is informed by leisure, from everyday practices to leisure-inspired mobile lifestyles. Part II investigates individuals and communities that become entrepreneurial in the face of changing tourism contexts and reflects on the performance of work through multiple mobilities. Part III turns to issues of development, with attention to the cultural politics that frame development encounters in the context of tourism. The varied ways that people move into and out of development projects is mediated by geopolitical discourses that can both challenge and perpetuate geographic imaginations of tourism destinations.The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography, e.g. notions of identity, representation and culture, while also providing for perspectives from cognate areas such as anthropology, cultural studies, gastronomy and food studies, marketing, policy studies and political economy, regional and urban planning, and sociology, within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/series/SE0522 The series comprises two strands:

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“…For example, Pain (2006) discusses the everyday securities of children in the context of fear and anxiety associated with stranger danger and paranoid parenting, and Ansell (2008) discusses debates about risk in the context of young people participating in gap year projects in the global South and how the risks and insecurities of such activities are mediated by gap year providers. Further to this, scholarship on young people's resistance and resilience to challenging circumstances through embodied and emotional strategies has been instrumental in demonstrating youth agency in children's geographies (Boyden & Mann, 2005;Watson, 2015).…”

Section: Young People and Everyday Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland

Botterill

Hopkins

Sanghera

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper uses a framework of 'ontological security' to discuss the psychosocial strategies of self-securitisation employed by ethnic and religious minority young people in Scotland. We argue that broad discourses of securitisation are present in the everyday risks and threats that young people encounter. In response and as resistance young people employ pre-emptive and pro-active strategies to preserve ontological security. Yet, these strategies are fraught with ambivalence and contradiction as young people withdraw from social worlds or revert to essentialist positions when negotiating complex fears and anxieties. Drawing on feminist geographies of security the paper presents a multi-scalar empirical analysis of young people's everyday securities, connecting debates on youth and intimacygeopolitics with the social and cultural geographies of young people, specifically work that focuses upon young people's negotiations of racialised, gendered and religious landscapes. Sécurités quotidiennes des jeunes: stratégies préventives et proactives pour une sécurité ontologique en Ecosse RÉSUMÉCet article utilise le cadre de la « sécurité ontologique » pour discuter des stratégies psycho-sociales de l'auto sécurisation employée par les jeunes de minorités ethniques et religieuses en Ecosse. Nous soutenons que les discours généraux de sécurisation sont présents dans les risques et les menaces quotidiens que rencontrent ces jeunes gens. En guise de réponse et de résistance, les jeunes utilisent des stratégies préventives et proactives pour préserver la sécurité ontologique. Pourtant, ces stratégies sont pleines d'ambivalence et de contradiction car les jeunes se retirent des mondes sociaux et retournent à des positions essentialistes quand ils négocient des peurs et des anxiétés complexes. En s'appuyant sur les géographies féministes de la sécurité, cet article présente une analyse empirique à plusieurs échelles, en reliant les débats sur les géopolitiques de la jeunesse et de l'intimité aux géographies culturelles et sociales des jeunes, en particulier aux travaux qui se concentrent sur les paysages racialisés, sexospécifiques et religieux que les jeunes négocient.

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Third World Gap Year Projects: Youth Transitions and the Mediation of Risk

Cited by 42 publications

References 47 publications

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering

Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland

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