Stefanie Schien

Volunteer Tourism Encounters (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives from an Indigenous Host Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: transcript
• Seitenzahl: 319
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783839410042
• Artikelnr.: 74735270

Autorenporträt

Stefanie Schien ist Kuratorin der südamerikanischen Sammlungen am Ethnologischen Museum in Berlin.