Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration is a lively ethnographic exploration of the world of conservation voluntourism and its engagement with marine and terrestrial biodiversity on the Honduran Bay Island of Utila, located in the ecologically critical Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. In this highly r...

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Author / Creator: Brondo, Keri Vacanti.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Series:Critical green engagements.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a Political Ecology of Multispecies Voluntourism
  • 1. "And the Sea Shall Hide Them": Utila's Cultural Landscape and Multispecies Entanglements
  • 2. "If You Come to Utila, You Can Do What You Want, and You're Never Gonna Leave"
  • 3. Conservation, Volunteering, and the Spectacle of Affective Labor
  • 4. The Political Ecology of Multispecies Conservation Voluntourism, and Limitations to "Becoming With"
  • Conclusion: Life, Death, and Collaboration in Utila's Affect Economy