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Title
Gap year volunteer tourism: myths of global citizenship?
Author/Creator
Lyons, Kevin;  Hanley, Joanne;  Wearing, Stephen;  Neil, John
Description
The valorisation of cross-cultural understanding and promotion of an ethic of global citizenship are at the forefront of the recent development and proliferation of international ‘gap year’ travel programs and policies. Governments and industry alike promote gap year travel uncritically as a guaranteed pathway to the development of inclusive ideologies associated with global citizenship. In this paper we examine how the neoliberalist context in which gap year travel programs have proliferated does little to promote tolerance. We then consider the recent growth of ‘volunteer tourism’ as an alternative gap year youth travel experience and explore how the implied resistance to self-serving neoliberalist values that it engenders can become coopted by neoliberalism.
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Annals of Tourism Research Vol. 39, Issue 1, p. 361-378
Publisher Link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2011.04.016
Date
2012
Publisher
Elsevier
Keyword(s)
global citizenship;  neoliberalism;  gap year travel;  volunteer tourism
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/928563
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ISSN:0160-7383
Language
eng
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