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Pain, Politics And Volunteering In Tourism Studies, Ryan Frazer, Gordon R. Waitt
Pain, Politics And Volunteering In Tourism Studies, Ryan Frazer, Gordon R. Waitt
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper is an ethnography of how six Australian volunteers experience a house-build project in the Philippines. Contingencies of empathic pain arising from the living conditions of those they aimed to help were felt through their bodies. Drawing on Sara Ahmed's ideas on pain enabled us to explore the politics of volunteer tourism. We suggest the intensification of volunteers' empathic pain constitute ambivalent spaces. In some volunteering contingencies, pain led to a blurring of conventional boundaries of 'them' and 'us', giving priority to difference over dominance. In others, volunteers reproduced dominant understandings of volunteering that mobilised neoliberal and colonial discourses. …
Curriculum Reform: A Transformation Or Consumption Model For Politics And International Relations?, Susan N. Engel
Curriculum Reform: A Transformation Or Consumption Model For Politics And International Relations?, Susan N. Engel
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
For decades, politics and international relations (PaIR) programs across Australia have taken a smorgasbord or student consumption approach to curriculum development. This article examines whether, with the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), there has been a systematisation and transformation of curriculum. It surveys 21 programs and majors in the field offered at 10 universities. It analyses directions in program structure, content and to a lesser extent delivery in order to discover whether there is a shared picture of graduate outcomes. The model of curriculum as a product students' select elements of to consume has largely continued and there has been no …