Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Pages: 155-169

Journal: Transnational Social Review

Volume number: 8

Issue number: 2

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1401427

Publisher: Taylor && Francis

Abstract: 

The ethnographic study focuses on constructions of difference concerning different categories of difference such as “race” and gender, but also age or class. Those categories of difference are constructed simultaneously in social processes and they are also reproduced in interactions in volunteer work abroad, which is currently a “booming” field of practice among young people. We refer to powerful practices of intersectional discrimination in volunteer work. To point this out, we considered the interactions between the white volunteers and the local people by interacting with them, and thus we identified an imbalance of power and dominance, for example, in educational practices. We defined this fact as a perpetuation of colonial practices which unconsciously have an effect on the users of the programs – the volunteers and the natives.

Harvard Citation style: Blum, A. and Schäfer, D. (2018) Volunteer work as a neocolonial practice - racism in transnational education, Transnational Social Review, 8(2), pp. 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1401427

APA Citation style: Blum, A., & Schäfer, D. (2018). Volunteer work as a neocolonial practice - racism in transnational education. Transnational Social Review. 8(2), 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1401427