Pippa Biddle
Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism
Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism
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Pippa Biddle's essay on voluntourism highlighted its flaws, including xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a "West knows best" mentality. Ours to Explore offers a plan for the service-based travel industry to break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers to improve the places they visit for the long haul.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2021
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Pippa Biddle's 2014 essay on voluntourism highlighted its inequities and absurdities, leading her to devote herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good. In her book, "Ours to Explore," Biddle explores the flaws of voluntourism, including xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a "West knows best" mentality. She reveals the hidden costs of the voluntourism complex, from exploitative orphanages to undertrained medical volunteers practicing their skills on patients in developing regions. Along the way, readers meet inspiring activists and passionate community members, as well as thoughtful former voluntourists who still work to make a difference. "Ours to Explore" offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.
Weight: 336g
Dimension: 153 x 227 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781640124417
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