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The content of the book Volunteer Tourism is current and relevant in today’s tourism discussion about, citizenship, development and cosmopolitanism. The authors provide a vocabulary not only for tourism scholars but also for people interested in mobility and morality. The book frames volunteer tourism as an expression of a diminished political subjectivity while at the same time recognizing the importance of volunteering, celebrating travel and affirming humanitarianism. The authors have delivered a work which contributes greatly to a comprehensive critical understanding of the volunteer tourism phenomenon. The book evokes a discussion among my colleagues and made me reflect about volunteer tourism and tourism in general. Through themes they portray volunteer tourism as a search for meaning in a globalized world with a global citizenship.

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  • The content of the book Volunteer Tourism is current and relevant in today’s tourism discussion about, citizenship, development and cosmopolitanism

  • The argument is that the authors are not looking to discuss whether volunteer tourism is good or bad or how to make it more ethical (p. 133) but they rather set out to comment on: “what the advent of the worthy gap year project and volunteer tourism as a significant rite of passage of aspirant, socially conscious people tells us about the politics of our day” (p. 133)

  • The authors provide themes in which they see volunteer tourism as an expression of a diminished political subjectivity while at the same time recognizing the importance of volunteering, celebrating travel and affirming humanitarianism

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The content of the book Volunteer Tourism is current and relevant in today’s tourism discussion about, citizenship, development and cosmopolitanism. The authors volunteer tourism is indicative of the growth of lifestyle strategies intended to exhibit care and responsibility toward others less fortunate, strategies aligned closely with developing one’s ethical identity and sense of global responsibility This thought-provoking book draws on developmental, political and sociological theory and is essential reading for students, researchers and academics interested in the phenomenon of volunteer tourism.

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