Volunteer Tourism Yet: Another Form of ¿Othering¿?

Ratherford Mwaruta

ISBN 10: 3846516643 / ISBN 13: 9783846516645

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Okt 2011, 2011

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Neuware -International Voluntary services have increased over the last couple of years. A lot of authors have written about this new 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. Unfortunately most of the writers have been focusing on the North-South Exchange meaning volunteers from Europe, United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand travelling to Africa, South East Asia, and Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the developing world to promote development as well as international understanding through voluntary services. This book focuses on the South- North exchange which has been neglected since time immemorial. The book is striving to raise awareness about the flow of volunteers from the developing countries to the developed countries as well as the flow f volunteer within the developing world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Volunteer Tourism Yet: Another Form of ¿Othering¿?
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Okt 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3846516643
• ISBN 13: 9783846516645
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 5D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 131 grams

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Synopsis

International Voluntary services have increased over the last couple of years. A lot of authors have written about this new 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. Unfortunately most of the writers have been focusing on the North-South Exchange meaning volunteers from Europe, United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand travelling to Africa, South East Asia, and Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the developing world to promote development as well as international understanding through voluntary services. This book focuses on the South- North exchange which has been neglected since time immemorial. The book is striving to raise awareness about the flow of volunteers from the developing countries to the developed countries as well as the flow f volunteer within the developing world.

About the Author

Ratherford Mwaruta obtained a BA Degree in Developments Studies (2007) and MSc Degree in Leisure, Tourism and Environment (2008). He has worked as a volunteer in a number of countries around the world especially in East and Southern Africa. He also served World Leisure Organisation United Nations Commission, as a commissioner on volunteerism.