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Alison Jones

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PhD Student: Department of Global and International Studies
University of California Irvine
Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Alison Jones participates

Monday 7 August, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes

The global tourism industry has deep ties within the institutional structure of higher education made possible by a neoliberal order dictated by the North onto Southern nations. I seek to understand the ways in which short term higher education volunteer programs bolster (or do not bolster) this neoliberal order based on the interactions between student volunteers and local communities. I contest that these...