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'Doing development': the gap year, volunteer-tourists and a popular practice of development

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    (University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)

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Over the last ten years the gap year has become a popular and publicly recognized phenomenon. One of the most visible forms of this phenomenon has been the emergence of 'third world' volunteer-tourism programmes, which seek to combine the hedonism of tourism with the altruism of development work. Such programmes make the practice of international development doable, knowable and accessible to young travellers. This paper seeks to critique the construction of this public face of development, while also asking, from a pedagogical perspective, what travelling participants learn about 'the others' they encounter on, and through, such programmes. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Kate Simpson, 2004. "'Doing development': the gap year, volunteer-tourists and a popular practice of development," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(5), pages 681-692.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:16:y:2004:i:5:p:681-692
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.1120
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    1. Lo, Ada S. & Lee, Candy Y.S., 2011. "Motivations and perceived value of volunteer tourists from Hong Kong," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(2), pages 326-334.
    2. Lynn Gregory & Kathleen Schroeder & Cynthia Wood, 2021. "A Paradigm Shift in International Service-Learning: The Imperative for Reciprocal Learning," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-15, April.
    3. Sara Kinsbergen & Esther Konijn & Simon Kuijpers‐Heezemans & Gabriëlle op 't Hoog & Dirk‐Jan Koch & Mieke Molthof, 2021. "Informalisation of international volunteering: A new analytical framework explaining differential impacts of the ‘orphanage tourism’ debate in the Netherlands," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(8), pages 1304-1320, November.
    4. Christopher Lupoli & Wayde Morse, 2015. "Assessing the Local Impacts of Volunteer Tourism: Comparing Two Unique Approaches to Indicator Development," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 120(2), pages 577-600, January.
    5. Jacob Greenspon, 2017. "The Gap Year: An Overview of the Issues," CSLS Research Reports 2017-01, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.
    6. Sharon McLennan, 2014. "Medical voluntourism in Honduras: ‘Helping’ the poor?," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 14(2), pages 163-179, April.
    7. Wearing, Stephen & Beirman, David & Grabowski, Simone, 2020. "Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    8. Benjamin J. Lough & Janet Carter-Black, 2015. "Confronting the white elephant: International volunteering and racial (dis)advantage," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 15(3), pages 207-220, July.
    9. Pan, Tze-Jen, 2012. "Motivations of volunteer overseas and what have we learned – The experience of Taiwanese students," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 33(6), pages 1493-1501.

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