Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef by Brondo, Keri Vacanti

Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816544356)

Vendor: Keri Vacanti Brondo
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$27.95
$27.95
$27.95
Subtotal: $27.95
Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef by Brondo, Keri Vacanti

Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef

$27.95
Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef by Brondo, Keri Vacanti

Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef

$27.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

Winner of the 2022 Edward M. Bruner Book Award

Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration is a lively ethnographic exploration of the world of conservation voluntourism and its engagement with marine and terrestrial biodiversity on the Honduran Bay Island of Utila, located in the ecologically critical Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

In this highly readable text, anthropologist Keri Vacanti Brondo provides a pioneering theoretical framework that conceptualizes conservation voluntourism as a green industry. Brondo argues that the volunteer tourism industry is the product of coloniality and capitalism that works to produce and sustain an economy of affect while generating inequalities and dispossession. Employing a decolonizing methodology based on landscape assemblage theory, Brondo offers "thinking-like-a-mangrove" to attend to alternative worldings in Utila beyond the hegemonic tourist spectacle-dominated world attached to the volunteer tourism industry. Readers journey through the mangroves and waters alongside voluntourists, iguanas, whale sharks, turtles, lionfish, and islanders to build valuable research experience in environmental management while engaging in affective labor and multispecies relations of care.

Conservation organizations benefit from the financial capital and labor associated with conservation tourism, an industry boosted by social media. This critical work asks us to consider the impacts of this new alternative tourism market, one that relies on the exchange of "affect" with other species. How are human socialities made through interactions with other species? What lives and dies in Utila's affect economy? Why are some species killable? Who gets to decide?


Author: Keri Vacanti Brondo
ISBN-10: 0816544352
ISBN-13: 9780816544356
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2023
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.63d
By Keri Vacanti Brondo
By Keri Vacanti Brondo
x
Keri Vacanti Brondo is a professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis. She is the author of Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras.

Recently Viewed Products