Overview
- Views voluntourism as a discursive field in which powerful ideas about language(s) are propagated worldwide
- Explores ideologies that undergird different forms of language-motivated voluntourism
- Expands on the original definition of volunteer tourism as humanitarian aid
Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics (PADLL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Language-Motivated Voluntourism in Contexts of Leisure and Holiday Travel
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Language-Motivated Voluntourism as Precarious Labor
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About this book
This edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching. The book’s contributors investigate volunteer tourism and its cognates such as working holidaymaking, international internships, and gap year labor, as discursive fields in which powerful ideas about language(s), their speakers, and pedagogical practices are propagated worldwide. The various authors’ chapters shed light on the hegemony of global English, the social consequences of linguistic commodification and neoliberal rationalities, the ways in which speaker identity positions can alter the exchange value of languages, and how language competencies are tied to power in the labor market, among related topics. This volume will be of interest to readers in Applied Linguistics, Critical Sociolinguistics, Educational and Linguistic Anthropology, Tourism and Leisure Studies, Migration and Mobility Studies, and Language Teaching and Learning.
Reviews
—Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern, Switzerland
“Jakubiak and Schedel have put together an excellent collection of work that will be essential reading for scholars of voluntourism. In focusing on language as a motivation for travel, the authors, collectively and individually, have achieved that rare thing: a coherent edited collection that truly advances our understanding.”
—Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Larissa Semiramis Schedel is a postdoctoral researcher in critical sociolinguistics at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research interests include language and work (especially in the tourism industry), language travel, and on-the-job language learning.
Cori Jakubiak is an associate professor of education at Grinnell College, USA. Her research program examines ideologies of global citizenship, native speakerism, and language as a commodity within English-language voluntourism and language tourism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching
Book Subtitle: Critical Perspectives
Editors: Larissa Semiramis Schedel, Cori Jakubiak
Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40813-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40812-0Published: 29 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40815-1Due: 29 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40813-7Published: 28 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-6623
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6631
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Sociology of Education, Anthropology, Sociology, general, Tourism Management, Tourism Management