Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"voluntourism"”.
-
Doing Good in Guatemala: Perceptions of Voluntourism in San Juan Comalapa
… highlands of Guatemala called San Juan Comalapa. Voluntourism acts as a bridge between development aid and traditional tourism and therefore voluntourism organizations should act as both roles in the community. In this research I found that voluntourism organizations, particularly one organization …
-
Effects of a Voluntourism Experience on Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Environmental Sustainability and Science
The current study explored the impact of a volunteer tourism experience at a community-based conservation (CBC) organization on volunteer perceptions, attitudes, and values toward conservation, the environment, and science. The Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute (MRCI) is a CBC …
-
“It's not voluntourism”: unpacking young people's narrative claims to authenticity and differentiation in the international volunteer experience
This qualitative research study explores how a group of 27 British undergraduate students make meaning of their experiences as they prepare for, participate in, and reflect upon a short-term international volunteer excursion in Kenya. Through a thematic analysis of verbal and visual text …
-
Vital Connections: A Multi-scalar Exploration of the Conservation Corridor Assemblage in Tanzania
… profit-making motivations of international voluntourism organisations and ideas of immutable nature – combine to result in a socially intractable and ecologically questionable corridor manifestation. My results show that corridors in Tanzania are not products of the straightforward …
-
Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
"This dissertation examines practices, discourses, and imaginaries of biomedicine within hospital spaces produced by transnational processes in a rural Ethiopian community. I examine how Ethiopian and volunteer American physicians navigate intersections of globalized standards and technologies with …
-
A Comparison of Profiles and Expenditures between Volunteer and Leisure Tourists for the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area
<p>This research compared the expenditure patterns, profiles, and trip characteristics of volunteer and leisure tourists in New Orleans. Survey research methods were used to obtain a sample of voluntourists that was compared to a leisure tourist sample obtained from secondary data. Visitors’ …
-
Is international service-learning win-win? A case study of an engineering partnership
Given the tormented history of development projects around the globe and the fact that global service learning and engineering-for-development often engages students in development interventions, it is critically important to explore the impact of global service learning projects and partnerships …
-
O impacto das relações interculturais nas crenças e atitudes dos viajantes relativamente ao país e à sociedade visitados : estudo de caso : a brigada agroecológica e Guamá, Cuba, organizada pela ONGD SODePAZ
A presente investigação pretende dar mais um contributo para melhor se entender a influência das relações interculturais para a compreensão entre os povos, no contexto da interação turística. Parte-se de um quadro teórico que cruzou reflexão de áreas como a Psicologia Social, o Turismo e a …