‘The white woman's burden’ – the racialized, gendered politics of volunteer tourism

Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan; Patil, Vrushali

doi:10.1080/14616688.2017.1298150

Cited by 69 publications

(27 citation statements)

References 31 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The program -entitled 'Shelter & Social Justice in El Salvador', required in-depth readings and pre-trip presentations on context-specific history, politics, and culture associated with El Salvador, and importantly, on race, privilege and gender themes in IEL (e.g. Bandyopadhyay & Patil, 2017;Schwartz, 2015).…”

Section: Figure 1 El Salvador Build-site Regions -San Salvador and Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Race and Participation in International Experiential Learning: Case-Based Exemplar of a Habitat-University Partnership in El Salvador

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

International experiential learning – IEL, has various pedagogical concerns associated with the colonial and racialized lineage underlying its Global South engagements. Drawing on critical race theory, White privilege and globally engaged learning research as they inform IEL, this case-based study of ‘northern’ participant perceptions of their experiences in a partnership between Habitat for Humanity in El Salvador, and a Canadian university, focuses on a ‘catalytic moment’ in El Salvador. That is, a unique situation arose which prompted participant women of colour – PoC, to share distinct insights and counter-stories from their positions, providing an opening for deeper attention to race for all of the participants, and we believe, for IEL practice more broadly. And in this context, the host partners saw opportunities for IEL participation both North and South, to be strengthened through greater diversity in team-composition and in associated host-community learning and relationship development.

show abstract

Section: Figure 1 El Salvador Build-site Regions -San Salvador and Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That is, at the historically oppressed intersections of being female, a PoC, and having the privileges associated with being from the North. Apparently drawing on the concept of White privilege raised in pre-trip preparation (Bandyopadhyay & Patil, 2017), she wrote:…”

Section: A Catalytic Moment On Sitementioning

confidence: 99%

Race and Participation in International Experiential Learning: Case-Based Exemplar of a Habitat-University Partnership in El Salvador

2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Samtidigt kan klassrummet förstås i ljuset av sin ideologiska historicitet som gör att det präglas av inre gränser som sätter ramarna för vem som (inte) orienterar sig dit, hur rummet formas och för vem dess väggar skaver samt på vilka sätt (jfr Ahmed, 2010). Tidigare forskning sammanlänkar spårbundenheten hos traditionen av högre klassens kvinnors deltagande i volontärarbete till historiska och ideologiska konstruktioner av en sammanflätad vithet, femininitet och borgerlighet, samt deras historiska rötter och funktion i europeisk kolonialhistoria (Heron, 2007;Srivastava, 2005;Bandyopadhyay & Patil, 2017). Sett till de historiska avlagringarna av internationellt folkbildningsarbete i TSF, samt i relation till folkhögskolans sammanblandning med turistifierande diskurser och diskurser om bistånd, kan vi förstå klassrummet som också format av ekon från dessa ideologiska konstruktioner.…”

Section: Berättelser Från Nutidenunclassified

Folkbildning i global (o)rättvisa : Makt och motstånd i folkhögskolans internationalisering och transnationella kurser

Wiklund

2019

Linköping Studies in Behavioural Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

especially like to thank Sofia Nyström, Louise Malmström and Song-Ee Ahn for all your very valued help and support. And, of course, my greatest appreciation to my dear "academic sisters" from the same PhD student cohort: Helena Colliander, Lina Rahm and Daphne Arbouz, and also Eleonor Bredlöv Eknor from the cohort before us. Thank you, not only for your intelligent feedback and readings, but also for all our deep conversations, silly joking and loving friendships. Without your company, I would never had made it through. I am very grateful to other friends and colleagues within academia for all the work you have put into reading, commenting and encouraging the work on this thesis. Thank you Annika Pastuhov,

show abstract

“…Some scholars regard volunteer tourism as a neoliberal phenomenon in which power hierarchies are reinforced and where the volunteer work becomes a commodified, neoliberal experience (Burrai et al, 2017;Conran, 2011;Germann Molz, 2017;Mostafanezhad, 2013). Other scholars argue for a related research perspective in which volunteer tourism, and especially its relationship with gender, 'race', and religion, is seen as an exponent of broader political, historical and cultural developments and discourses (Bandyopadhyay & Patil, 2017). Yet, these perspectives have been criticized by some for being too normative or deterministic (Everingham, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe

Driessen

2020

Tourism Geographies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

An important aspect of contemporary volunteer tourism is generated by the possibility of having personal, emotional and affective encounters and experiences. Volunteer summer camps on former war sites, organized by the German Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ARSP), can be regarded as an expression of a contemporary form of tourism, which consists of the development of a personal, affective, and immersive approach to learning and volunteering on former war sites. A performative approach to studying emotion is applied, and helps to locate and understand the social, cultural, and political components that instigate the desire for affective volunteer tourism. For this study, 26 semi-structured in-depth interviews have been conducted with participants of ARSP volunteer summer camps that focused on conserving and maintaining former war sites in Italy, Lithuania, and France. The results indicate that volunteers expect war themed summer camps to be impactful (in terms of work) and emotional (in terms of personal experiences). Yet, the sought-after impact and emotion are not always found, which gives rise to contradictory feelings and tensions. Feelings of guilt about unmet expectations have caused volunteers to re-evaluate their motives and look for different ways to make the summer camps meaningful to them. Participants were encouraged to critically reflect, on this form of volunteer tourism in particular, and on societal debates about war and volunteer tourism in general.

show abstract

‘The white woman's burden’ – the racialized, gendered politics of volunteer tourism

Cited by 69 publications

References 31 publications

Race and Participation in International Experiential Learning: Case-Based Exemplar of a Habitat-University Partnership in El Salvador

Race and Participation in International Experiential Learning: Case-Based Exemplar of a Habitat-University Partnership in El Salvador

Folkbildning i global (o)rättvisa : Makt och motstånd i folkhögskolans internationalisering och transnationella kurser

Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About