Exotic Place, White Space
Racialized Volunteer Spaces in Honduras
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12134751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Jerome Schneider (0000-0002-7865-2768, Department of Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign 702 South Wright Street Urbana Illinois 61801, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 690-711 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0884-8971 • E-ISSN: 1573-7861 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/socf.12439 |
| OpenAlex | W2799782801 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 69 |
In every year between 2004 and 2012, more than 800,000 Americans reported volunteering internationally (Lough ). These volunteers are overwhelmingly white (McBride and Lough ) and entering a largely nonwhite and developing world. This study starts by questioning how racial status informs volunteer/volunteer tourist interactions, both with locals and with other volunteers, in a global context. In‐depth interviews with 23 missionaries, teachers, and volunteers from the United States and Canada reveal that (1) international volunteering is largely motivated by romantic and exotic understandings of the Global South and (2) in spite of a stated interest in cultural immersion, participants’ notions of their whiteness guided their perceptions of Hondurans and their actions as they sought out and retreated to white spaces protected from Honduran influence. These findings further the work of those who have argued first world travelers have homogenized spaces on reserve, by demonstrating that whiteness can be the basis for the construction and maintenance of protected spaces in predominantly nonwhite countries
Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Geography · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
The Taxi Ride
Volunteer Tourism
Professionalism, privilege and publicity
From pictures to perceptions
Cultural Exchange during English-Language Voluntourism (EVT) in Lima, Peru
Medical Brigades to El Salvador and Honduras
Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism
It's Like Going Back in Time
In the Name of Love
Race, Place, and Relationship Formation in the Digital Age
Sociology of Whiteness
Touristic security
Feeling Race
I don't know what's racist
Whiteness in transit
Ethnic identity
Race Migrations
The Development of Cross-Cultural (Mis)Understanding Through Volunteer Tourism
‘Doing development’
Travelling with a Purpose
A Cultural Encounter through Volunteer Tourism
The Passing of Traditional Society
Place and Politics
In Place/Out of Place
Investing in discourses of poverty and development
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
White Privilege and Male Privilege
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Racial Situations
The Nature of Race
Working-Class White
Tourism and Tourism Spaces
Volunteerism Research
White Women, Race Matters
The Impact of Race on the Social Experience of College Students at a Predominantly White University
Volunteerism
Forays into the backstage
On the Inside Looking In
Presidential Action and Public Opinion about U.S. Nicaraguan Policy
Effects of International Volunteering and Service
Social Heterogeneity and Volunteering in U.S. Cities
Homeownership and Volunteering
The History of Development
Beyond rescaling
Volunteer Tourism—“involve Me and I Will Learn”
Bordering, Ordering and Othering
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Volunteer tourism and the popular humanitarian gaze
The End of Poverty
Ethnic Options
Commentary
The Road to Hell
The Pretty Prudent Public
The Bali Syndrome
Developing creativity in tourist experiences
The empire of capital and the remaking of centre-periphery relations
Making space, making race
The moral underpinnings of beauty
Cosmopolitan Whiteness
Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations
Paving the Way for Future Race Research
The White Space
Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation
Giving Back, Doing Good, Feeling Global
A Darker Shade of Pale?' Whiteness, the Middle Classes and Multi-Ethnic Inner City Schooling
When Whites Flock Together
A Space for Place in Sociology
Dominant Group Ethnic Identity in the United States
What Group?' Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of 'Color-Blindness
Explanations for racial disadvantage and racial advantage
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |