Save the world in a week: Volunteer tourism, development and difference

European Journal of Development Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-128

  Vodopivec, Barbara ^b   Jaffe, Rivke ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

anthropology of development; Guatemala; mobilities; neoliberalism; tourism; volunteering

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; NEOLIBERALISM; TOURISM; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 79951528072     PISSN: 09578811     EISSN: 17439728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejdr.2010.55     Document Type: Article

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