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1. Introduction : sentimental sojourns in Northern Thailand -- 2. "making a difference one village at a time" : volunteer tourism and the Peace Corps effect -- 3. The seduction of development : NGOs and alternative tourism in Northern Thailand -- 4. Cosmopolitan empathy, new social movements and the moral economy of volunteer tourism -- 5. The cultural politics of sentimentality in volunteer tourism -- 6. Converging interests? Cross-cultural authenticity in volunteer tourism -- 7. Conclusion : re-mapping the movement : popular humanitarianism and the geopolitics of hope in volunteer tourism.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- 1 Introduction: Sentimental Sojourns in Northern Thailand -- 2 "Making a Difference One Village at a Time": Volunteer Tourism and the Peace Corps Effect -- 3 The Seduction of Development: NGOs and Alternative Tourism in Northern Thailand -- 4 Cosmopolitan Empathy, New Social Movements and the Moral Economy of Volunteer Tourism -- 5 The Cultural Politics of Sentimentality in Volunteer Tourism -- 6 Converging Interests? Cross-Cultural Authenticity in Volunteer Tourism -- 7 Conclusion—Re-mapping the Movement: Popular Humanitarianism and the Geopolitics of Hope in Volunteer Tourism -- Bibliography

AbstractA resurgence of agrarianism has motivated new farmers to enter farming, not for profit, but for lifestyle and socio‐ecological values which are frequently associated with diverse economies. Proponents of diverse economies argue for an ontological reframing that accounts for non‐capitalist forms of economic exchange. However, these perspectives have not fully addressed the conditions—often structured by race and class—that facilitate participation in diverse economies. This paper is based on mixed‐methods research on the life cycle of new farmers in Hawai'i that include participants of farmer training programs. We investigate what drives new farmers into farming, by what mechanisms they are able (or not) to establish a farm, and what limits the duration of their participation. Our analysis reveals three contradictions of diverse economies in agriculture: (1) the inadvertent undervaluation of farmwork that undermines broader efforts to improve the welfare of farm labor; (2) the tension between the value of scaling up and the vulnerability of cooptation; and (3) the ways in which the duration of new farmers' engagement is structured by their ability to mobilize unpaid labor and external resources. These contradictions challenge long‐term and inclusive participation in diverse economies in ways that constrain their emancipatory potential.

In this paper, we develop a conceptual approach from which to examine the moral landscape of volunteer tourism development in Cusco, Peru. Drawing from recent work on assemblage theory in geography and tourism studies, we explore how assemblage thinking can facilitate new understandings of volunteer tourism development. Using assemblage as an analytical framework allows us to understand volunteer tourism as a series of relational, processual, unequal and mobile practices. These practices, we argue, are constituted through a broader aggregation of human and non-human actors that co-construct moral landscapes of place. Thus, reconsidering volunteer tourism as assemblage allows for more inclusive and nuanced understandings of how geopolitical discourses as well as historical, political, economic and cultural conjunctures mediate volunteer tourism development, planning and policy. Finally, this paper calls for further research that integrates assemblage theory and tourism planning and development.

By the start of the century, nearly one billion international travelers were circulating the globe annually, placing tourism among the worlds' most ubiquitous geopolitical encounters. While the COVID-19 pandemic brought the industry to a sudden halt, its geopolitical significance remained. With striking clarity, tourism desires and reinvented mobilities revealed the impermanence of Old World orders as new global alliances were forged. While scholars have critically examined tourism in the contexts of development, cultural change, and environmental crisis, much less attention has been paid to the geopolitical drivers and consequences of the world's largest industry. This collection homes in on tourism and its geopolitical entanglements by examining its contemporary affects, imaginaries, and infrastructures. It develops the concept of tourism geopolitics to reveal the growing centrality of tourism in geopolitical life, as well as the geopolitical nature of the tourism encounter.
In Tourism Geopolitics, contributors show enacted processes such as labor migration, conservation, securitization, nation building, territorial disputes, ethnic cleansing, heritage revitalization, and global health crisis management, among others. These contended societal processes are deployed through tourism development initiatives that mobilize deeply uneven symbolic and material landscapes. The chapters reveal how a range of experiences are implicated in this process: museum visits, walking tours, architectonical evocations of the past, road construction, militarized island imaginations, gendered cultural texts, and official silences. Collectively, the chapters offer ethnographically rich illustrations from around the world that demonstrate the critical nature of tourism in formal geopolitical practices, as well as the geopolitical nature of everyday tourism encounters. This volume is a vital read for critical geographers, anthropologists, and political scientists, as well as scholars of tourism and cultural studies.
Contributors: Sarah Becklake, M. Bianet Castellanos, Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Jason Dittmer, Klaus Dodds, Jamie Gillen, Simon Halink, Jordan Hallbauer, James Igoe, Debbie Lisle, Mary Mostafanezhad, Dieter K. Müller, Roger Norum, Alessandro Rippa, Ian Rowen, Robert Saunders, Juan Francisco Salazar, Tani Sebro, Mimi Sheller, Henry Szadziewski, Vernadette Vicuña González, Emma Waterton

Introduction : "New" tourism and leisure mobilities : what's new? / Jillian Rickly, Kevin Hannam, and Mary Mostafanezhad -- Meanders as mobile practices : Street Flowers : Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land / Mike Collier -- Entrainment : Human-equine leisure mobilities / Paula Danby and Kevin Hannam -- Leisure, bicycle mobilities, and cities / Jonas Larsen -- Gendered automobilities : Female Pakistani migrants driving in Saudi Arabia / Kevin Hannam -- What is a "dirtbag"? : Reconsidering tourist typologies and leisure mobilities through rock climbing subcultures / Jillian Rickly -- Exploring tourism employment in the Perhentian Islands : Mobilities of home and away / Jacqueline Salmond -- The "Nextpat" : Towards an understanding of contemporary expatriate subjectivities / Roger Norum -- Should I stay or should I go? : Labour and lifestyle mobilities of Bulgarian migrants to the UK / Gergina Pavlova-Hannam -- Workers on the move : Global labour sourcing in the cruise industry / William Terry -- Confronting economic precariousness through international retirement : Japan's old-age "economic refugees" and Germany's "exported grannies" / Meghann Ormond and Mika Toyota -- Home exchanging : A shift in the tourism marketplace / Antonio Paolo Russo and Alan Quaglieri Domínguez -- Travelling beauty : Diasporic development and transient service encounters at the salon / Lauren Wagner -- Orphanage Tourism and Development in Cambodia: A Mobilities Approach / Tess Guiney -- Mobility for all through English-language voluntourism / Cori Jakubiak -- When pesos come at the expense of tourism proximity and moorings / Matilde Córdoba Azcárate -- Making tracks in pursuit of the wild : Mobilising nature and tourism on a (com)modified African Savannah / William O'Brien and Wairimu Njambi -- Decolonising tourism mobilities? : Planning research within a First Nations community in Northern Canada / Bryan S. . Grimwood, Lauren J. King, Allison P. Holmes, and the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation -- Afterword / Noel Salazar

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, 'At Home and in the Field' is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork