Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience

Michael A Di Giovine editor John J Bodinger de Uriarte editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:16th Dec '20

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Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience cover

What sets study abroad apart from tourism? Both study abroad and mass tourism are experiencing rapid growth in the international market—with study abroad increasingly serving as an integral component of the “university experience”—and both call on the same sorts of processes and infrastructures. Yet study abroad promoters often promise that student travel will not be a tourist experience but something deeper, more educational and engaging—an antidote to typical tourism. But as study abroad becomes both democratized and bureaucratized in the modern neoliberal university, what was once considered a cosmopolitan “anti-tourism” experience has progressively taken on the trappings of modern mass tourism: shorter, pre-programed, standardized and heavily-marketed. With contributions from anthropologists and cultural theorists who have deep ties to study abroad programs,  Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience  examines the culture and cultural implications of student travel. Drawing on rich case studies from the Arctic to Africa, Asia to the Americas, this impressive array of experts focuses on challenges and ethical implications of student engagement, service and volunteering, immersion, student-faculty research collaborations in the field, local community impacts, and the impetus to craft a new generation of active, engaged global citizens. This volume is a must-read for students interested in study abroad, practitioners designing high-impact educational experiences away from their host institutions, and scholars who wish to explore the interrelationship between study abroad, tourism and anti-tourism movements.

This book is an innovative text contrasting tourism and anti-tourism in subtle and unexpected ways. It was a mind-blowing book for me!

-- Edward M. Bruner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

(This edited collection) draws on a range of abstract and complex concepts but does so in an assured and clear way. It makes the complex simple, but never simplistic. . . Conceptually it draws on themes from anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of tourism studies and publications on service learning and study abroad. As such, the book . . . (will) be a significant addition to the literature.

-- Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church Univer

ISBN: 9781498583268

Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 26mm

Weight: 662g

382 pages