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Global encounters: Voluntourism, development and global citizenship in Fiji
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12318
Sharon J. McLennan 1
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This paper explores the rise of voluntourism in Fiji, a country reliant on tourism but which is a relatively new market for voluntourism. It draws from research examining the role of voluntourism in development through a case study of the experiences and discourse of voluntourists, a host community, and the staff of a commercial voluntourism organisation in Fiji. While voluntourism is the focus of significant and necessary critique, this research showed that narrow conceptions of what the outcomes of voluntourism should be – usually articulated as development or global citizenship – do not adequately account for the complex web of relationships and impacts that result from the voluntourism encounter. Instead, in this research a more complex picture emerged of the encounters facilitated by the voluntourism experience; the multiple relationships formed between volunteers and hosts; and the learning that took place, particularly within home stays. In this paper these encounters are explored using a wide‐angled view of development, drawing on Hart's (2001; Progress in Human Geography, 25, 649–658) conception of d/Development, to explore the relationship between development and global citizenship and how these are shaped by, and interact with, historical and contemporary global processes; from colonialism to commercialised volunteering. As such, this paper argues for a more nuanced and reflective approach to voluntourism and voluntourists, one which does not overlook the critiques, but which acknowledges the ways in which voluntourism encounters are shaping broader development trajectories within the contexts in which they occur; and for more attention to be paid to the way in which the discourses of global citizenship and development are co‐articulated and expressed in voluntourism practices.

中文翻译:

全球遭遇:斐济的志愿服务,发展和全球公民

本文探讨了斐济这个自愿旅游业的兴起,斐济是一个依赖旅游业但又是一个相对较新的自愿旅游市场的国家。它通过对自愿者在斐济的经验和话语进行案例研究,通过研究自愿者在发展中的作用而进行研究。虽然志愿服务主义是重要而必要的批评的焦点,但这项研究表明,关于志愿服务的结果应该是什么的狭义概念(通常表达为发展或全球公民身份)并不能充分说明由志愿服务产生的复杂关系和影响网。志愿服务遭遇。取而代之的是,在这项研究中,出现了更为复杂的,由志愿服务经历促成的遭遇的画面。志愿者与主人之间的多重关系;和所发生的学习,尤其是在寄宿家庭中。在本文中,我们借鉴了哈特(Hart)(2001;d / Development(《人类地理学的进步》,第25卷,649-658页),探讨发展与全球公民之间的关系,以及历史和当代全球进程如何塑造和相互作用这些关系;从殖民主义到商业化志愿服务。因此,本文主张对志愿服务主义和志愿服务者采取更细微和反思的方法,这种方法不会忽视批评,但承认志愿服务主义遭遇的方式正在其发生的环境中塑造更广泛的发展轨迹;为了更加关注全球志愿活动与发展有关的全球公民论述和表达方式。
更新日期:2019-07-17
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