Volunteer Tourism Encounters: Perspectives from an Indigenous Host Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon...

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Stefanie Schien

Volunteer Tourism Encounters

Perspectives from an Indigenous Host Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Stefanie Schien

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Transcript Verlag
30 September 2025

Geography

Series: Culture and Social Practice

Volunteer tourism is a global trend in which travellers engage in voluntary work, often in social, environmental, or charitable projects. Stefanie Schien explores the lived experiences of a Shuar community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that hosts volunteer tourists. She challenges the view of locals as passive aid recipients and highlights how they actively navigate, negotiate, and leverage voluntourism to pursue their own strategies and motives. By emphasizing the perspectives and agency of the host community, this thought-provoking study complicates our understanding of voluntourism and shows that what is at stake for the Shuar in this global exchange is the continuation of their self-determined way of life.

By: Stefanie Schien
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: Auflage - Neueauflage
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm,
ISBN: 9783837677928
ISBN 10: 3837677923
Series: Culture and Social Practice
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stefanie Schien ist Kuratorin der südamerikanischen Sammlungen am Ethnologischen Museum in Berlin.