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来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.46,Issue3,P.334-360

语言

英文

关键字

affect; emotion; family travel; global citizenship; neoliberalism; parenting; volunteer tourism; VOLUNTEER TOURISM; SOCIAL-RESEARCH; TRAVEL; PROFESSIONALIZATION; CITIZENSHIP; CULTURE

作者单位

[Molz, Jennie Germann] Coll Holy Cross, Sociol, One Coll St, Worcester, MA 01610 USA. Molz, JG (reprint author), Coll Holy Cross, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, One Coll St, Worcester, MA 01610 USA. E-Mail: jmolz@holycross.edu

摘要

Whereas research on volunteer tourism has tended to focus on college-aged individuals, this article focuses on families with young children who volunteer abroad together. The article engages with scholarly debates surrounding the emotional and affective dimensions of voluntourism to examine how volunteering experiences encourage children to feel global. Through a qualitative analysis of ethnographic stories about catharsis and comfort zones, the article illustrates how certain emotions are produced and managed in the context of family voluntourism in order to propel children toward global subjectivities. The analysis reveals that family voluntourism reflects a neoliberal logic that compels parents to prepare their children for an uncertain future by developing an emotional repertoire of adaptability, open-mindedness, compassion, and gratitude. Family voluntourism is therefore not necessarily about making a difference in poor communities, but rather about equipping middle-class children from the Global North with the emotional skills they will need to live in the uncertain and unequal world of neoliberal globalization.