Abstract
This chapter, focusing on charity and gap-year tourism, examines the ethics and power relations involved in seeing. Noting the dominance of vision in travel narratives, it considers the relationship between seeing and being seen. A discussion on Jean-Christophe Perrot’s and Diego Audemard’s 2007 Tandems africains, in which the authors rely on blind or partially sighted local guides during their journey across sub-Saharan Africa, illuminates how the writers’ experience is thus mediated by the non-seeing guides. Although the gap-year travellers share ‘something of the discourses of discovery and domination associated with seeing and thus knowing’, their ‘journey of self-discovery’ affects them and has a lasting impact on the travellees through media coverage and donations from the book’s profits.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing |
Editors | Alasdair Pettinger, Tim Youngs |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 14 |
Pages | 193-207 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781315613710, 9781315613710 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Jul 2019 |
Keywords
- charity tourism, disability studies
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Margaret Topping
- School of Arts, English and Languages - Pro-Vice-Chancellor
- Modern Languages
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