Volunteer tourism, development and education in a postcolonial world: conceiving global connections beyond aid
Volunteer tourism, development and education in a postcolonial world: conceiving global connections beyond aid
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后殖民世界中的志愿旅游、发展和教育：构想超越援助的全球联系
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2010
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Carlos Palacios
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Carlos Palacios
本文有助于公众和学术界对西方青年参与发展中国家志愿旅游项目是否合适的讨论。人种学研究是在澳大利亚的一个项目背景下进行的，该项目为越南、墨西哥和斐济等国的大学生组织了短期小组实习。结果表明，这些项目在全球参与、职业发展、跨文化能力和心理支持方面可以产生与其他国际志愿服务（IVS）教育倡议类似的好处。然而，为了避免公众的批评和负面的结果，他们需要协调个人和机构的期望与真正的志愿者能力。因此，除非大学背景下的IVS项目与发展援助话语保持距离，否则它们可能会落入“新殖民主义”的保护伞下。该研究提供了一个影响分析模型，并为大学或类似的组织提出了具有挑战性的问题，这些组织参与了志愿者旅游的短期团体安置。
This paper contributes to the public and academic debate on the appropriateness of young Westerners’ participation in projects of volunteer tourism conducted in developing countries. Ethnographic research was carried out in the context of an Australian program that organizes short-term group placements for university students in countries like Vietnam, Mexico and Fiji. The results illustrate that such projects can produce similar benefits to other educational initiatives of international volunteering and service (IVS) in terms of global engagement, career development, intercultural competence and psychological support. However, for these projects to avoid public critiques and negative outcomes, they need to harmonize personal and institutional expectations with real volunteer capacities. Thus, until IVS programs in the university context distance themselves from a development aid discourse, they will potentially fall under the umbrella of “neo-colonialism”. The research provides a model of impact analysis and raises challenging questions for universities or similar organizations involved with short-term group placements of volunteer tourism.