TY - BOOK AU - Mostafanezhad,Mary TI - Volunteer tourism : popular humanitarianism in neoliberal times SN - 9781409469537 U1 - 910 PY - 2014/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, England ; , Burlington, VT : PB - Ashgate Publishing Company, KW - Volunteer Tourism KW - Humanitarianism KW - Neoliberalism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -