کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1007187 1482253 2013 20 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS IN VOLUNTEER TOURISM
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری گردشگری، اوقات فراغت و مدیریت هتلداری
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THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS IN VOLUNTEER TOURISM
چکیده انگلیسی


• I examine the “politics of aesthetics” in volunteer tourism in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• Research is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork among three NGOs.
• Volunteer tourists aestheticize poverty by describing it as authentic and cultural.
• Volunteer tourists perpetuate an aesthetic structure that depoliticizes poverty.
• Volunteer tourism needs to be reframed to make history and politics “sensible”.

In this paper I address the “politics of aesthetics” in volunteer tourism. By “aesthetics,” I mean two things. First, I adopt Jacques Ranciere’s notion of aesthetics as the structured way human sense is organized. I argue that volunteer tourism perpetuates an aesthetic structure that systematically depoliticizes the global economic inequality on which the experience is based. Second, drawing on recent scholarship in critical tourism studies as well as 16 months of ethnographic research in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I illustrate how volunteer tourists aestheticize the host community members’ poverty as authentic and cultural. This reframing contributes to the legitimization of volunteer tourism as a celebrated cultural practice that perpetuates the aestheticization rather than the politicization of poverty in the encounter.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Annals of Tourism Research - Volume 43, October 2013, Pages 150–169
نویسندگان
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