Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience

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What sets study abroad apart from tourism Both study abroad and mass tourism are experiencing rapid growth in the international marketwith study abroad increasingly serving as an integral component of the university experienceand both call on the same sorts of processes and infrastructures. Yet study abroad promoters often promisethat student travel will not be a tourist experience but something deeper, more educational and engagingan 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.

Reviews

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 University

Author Bio

John J. Bodinger de Uriarte is chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, and director of the Museum Studies Program and the Diversity Studies Program at Susquehanna University.

Michael A. Di Giovine is associate professor of anthropology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and honorary fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.