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Volunteer Tourism Encounters : Perspectives from an Indigenous Host Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Auflage - Neueauflage

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 3837677923
ISBN-13 9783837677928
Edition Auflage - Neueauflage
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 30th, 2025
Print length 320 Pages
Weight 300 grams
Ksh 11,900.00
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An Indigenous community in Ecuador's Amazon engages with voluntourism to advance its own motives and sustain a self-determined way of life.

Volunteer tourism is a global trend in which travellers engage in voluntary work, often in social, environmental, or charitable projects. Stefanie Schien explores the lived experiences of a Shuar community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that hosts volunteer tourists. She challenges the view of locals as passive aid recipients and highlights how they actively navigate, negotiate, and leverage voluntourism to pursue their own strategies and motives. By emphasizing the perspectives and agency of the host community, this thought-provoking study complicates our understanding of voluntourism and shows that what is at stake for the Shuar in this global exchange is the continuation of their self-determined way of life.


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