Voluntourism and the contract corrective.
Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism industry reflects myriad development problems, such as structural challenge...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 8; pp. 1475 - 1491 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2018
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