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Title: Volunturismo: Del complejo del Salvador Blanco a la romantización del neocolonialismo. Una propuesta práctica en la Escuela Ndimbalante (Gambia)
Author: Muñoz Comas, Aina
Tutor: San Eugenio Vela, Jordi de
Abstract: The aim of this project is dual: on the first hand, in a first phase, it focuses on identifying the sociocultural impacts of volunteer tourism through the existing scientific literature as well as direct testimonies and other related actors, understanding the scope of those impacts and their consequences. By combining those practices that have resulted in dire or even irreversible consequences for the host community, aframe of reference is established, as well as a set of prohibited practices for a sustainable proposal of voluntourism and, at the same time, allows the design of a program that encourages ethics from base, altruism and sustainability from a social perspective. On the other hand, in the second phase, we worked together with the Ndimbalante School, in Gambia, to propose a voluntourism project that shuns neocolonialist practices, that vetoes the traditional paternalistic attitudes of the Northern Hemispher towards the Global South, that condemns white savior complex behaviours, and that boosts sustainable tourism as an economic impulse to promote the self-empowerment of the Gambian community, cross-learning, and an improvement of the living conditions of its inhabitants.
Keywords: voluntourism
white savior complex
volunteering
racism
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 17-Feb-2021
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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