{"product_id":"volunteer-tourism-jim-butcher-9780415749015","title":"Volunteer Tourism: The lifestyle politics of international development","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust a generation ago the notion that holidays should be invested with ethical and political significance would have sounded odd. Today it is part of the lifestyle political landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolunteer tourism is indicative of the growth of lifestyle strategies intended to exhibit care and responsibility towards others less fortunate, strategies aligned closely with developing one's ethical identity and sense of global responsibility. It sits alongside telethons, pay-per-click, Fair Trade and ethical consumption generally as a way to \"make a difference\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolunteer tourism involves a personal mission to address the political question of development. It draws upon the private virtues of care and responsibility and disavows political narratives beyond this. Critics argue that this leaves the volunteers as unwitting carriers of damaging neoliberal or postcolonial assumptions, whilst advocates see it as offering creative and practical ways to build a new ethical politics. By contrast, this volume analyses volunteer tourism as indicative of a retreat from public politics into the realm of private experience, and as an expression of diminished political and moral agency. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis thought provoking book draws on development, political and sociological theory and is essential reading for students, researchers and academics interested in the phenomenon of volunteer tourism and the politics of lifestyle that it represents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Butcher,Peter Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415749018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415749015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Jim Butcher","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153009094911,"sku":"9780415749015","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce1212d3-df31-49ea-9806-77d6732ad4e3.jpg?v=1770780672","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/volunteer-tourism-jim-butcher-9780415749015","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}