| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 227 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgement -- 1. Introduction; Abigail E. Adams and Katherine Borland -- 2. A Brief Social History of Humanitarian Engagement; Katherine Borland -- 3. Priest in the Revolution; Fernando Cardenal, translated by Abigail E. Adams -- El Salvador -- 4. Reciprocity and the Fabric of Solidarity: Central Americans, Refugees, and Delegations in the 1980s; William Westerman -- 5. Untellable Stories and the Limits of Solidarity in a Sister Community Relationship; Ellen Moodie -- 6. Who is a Global Citizen: Manifestations of Theory in Practice; Katherine Daly -- Nicaragua -- 7. What We Are About to Do Is Highly Problematic: The Unpaved Road From Service Trips to Educational Delegations; Irene King -- 8. From Skeptic to Convert, from (short-term) Service to (long-term) Witness: Towards Pedagogies of Witnessing on International Service Trips; Eric Martin Usner -- 9. The Learning of International Service Learning: Student Reflections Several Years Out; Alycia Buenger, Meghan Hensley, Nicole Klimas, and Liza Marks -- Honduras -- 10. In Search of Sustainable Community Development through Practice: A Sustainable Potable Water Project in Colinas de Suiza, Honduras; David R. Mųoz -- 11. International Students and Volunteers Amidst Rising Violence: the Challenges from Honduras; Katherine Borland interviews Jeff Boyer -- Limiting Structures -- 12. The Pilgrimage Transformed: How to 'Break the Bracket' of U.S. Volunteer Tourism in Central America; Abigail E. Adams -- 13. International Service Learning: Fostering International Cooperation/Avoiding International Dominance; Steven G. Jones -- 15. Conclusion; Katherine Borland and Abigail Adams -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
Designed to promote reflection and better practices among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides a collection of narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants, and Central American partners. The authors explore lessons learned from specific international service interventions in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras, with some attention to Costa Rica and Guatemala. The collection provides a nuanced, contextualized, historically evolving portrait of the increasingly popular practice of "voluntourism" with an eye toward pushing that practice toward meaningful social change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Volunteer tourism -- Central America
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Volunteer tourism
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Voluntourismus
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Central America
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Zentralamerika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Borland, Katherine
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| ISBN |
9781137369352 |
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1137369353 |
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9781349474875 |
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1349474878 |
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