1st Edition
Tourism, Philanthropy and School Tours in Zimbabwe Problematising “Win-Win” Discourses
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Image(s) of Africa
Education challenges
A note on terminology
Introduction to the research
Structure of the book
Chapter 2 HOW DOES TOURISM COME TO BE IN A SCHOOL?
Economic challenges: A brief history
Education challenges: A system in crisis
Tourism in Zimbabwe
Summary
Chapter 3 INTRODUCING MATOPO SCHOOL
Matopo School
Education Tours
Adventure Company
Shumba Safaris
The funding arrangement
My relationship to the school
Summary
Chapter 4 THE WHITE SAVIOUR COMPLEX
Development
Developmentourism and education: problems of naming
The white saviour complex
Dominant images of Majority World children
Summary
Chapter 5 BUILDING THE SET AND PRODUCING ‘AFRICA’
Set design: An image of Africa
Managing conflicting roles of the school
Use of children because teachers tell lies
Summary
Chapter 6: THE STARRING ROLE: POOR-BUT-HAPPY CHILDREN
Playing a character: Poor-but-happy children
“They are in love with the children”
Tourist-Visitor-Friend
Summary
Chapter 7 BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL: THE WHITE SAVIOUR AS PROTAGONIST
The protagonist: The white saviour
Complexities of the white saviour in action
The role I was assigned
The tension of external funders
The white saviour and the local community
Summary
Chapter 8 CONCLUSION
Biography
Kathleen Smithers is a Lecturer in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her main research interests are in sociology of education, philanthropy in education, and in precarity in higher education.
