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Ours to explore : privilege, power, and the paradox of voluntourism / Pippa Biddle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biddle, Pippa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Volunteer tourism.
- Tourism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Tourism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Ours to Explore investigates voluntourism's past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1866 : a woman in India
- A certain kind of tourism
- Cars, planes, and resorts
- The alternative tourism boomerang
- The age of voluntourism
- Colonial pathologies
- Faith, purpose, and mission
- The development conundrum
- Playing doctor
- Teaching children
- Orphanages
- An indictment
- Turning tide
- The future of voluntourism
- On to an end.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781640124783
- 1-64012-441-1
- OCLC:
- 1245656205
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