Yim Ming Connie Kwong

Gebundenes Buch

Volunteer Tourism and the Moral Self

Ethnographic Research of Non-Western Tourists

Beschreibung

Volunteer tourism and the moral self, offers a new lens to conceptualise volunteer tourism through the 'moral self'. It moves the conceptualisation of volunteer tourism to the broader discussion around ways of being and becoming a moral self.

Autor

Yim Ming Connie Kwong is a human geographer, with an interdisciplinary background in cultural geography, tourism and sustainability. She holds a PhD in Geography from Durham University, and an MPhil in Geography and BSocSc. (Geography and Sociology) from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in three interdisciplinary areas: 1) cultures, values, identities and practices; 2) moral geographies, tourism and development; 3) community building and sustainable co-development. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research. She has conducted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and fieldwork as well as supervising student projects and theses of different levels in East, Southeast and Central Asia, Latin America and East Africa. She is co-editor of a recent volume 'Navigating the Field: Postgraduate Experiences in Social Research'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781032538433
• ISBN-10: 1032538430
• Artikelnr.: 72543410