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cord-034296-8cl1jll8	Stanley, Phiona	Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism	2020-09-14		.txt	text/plain	6979	446	66	title: Problematizing "Activism": Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism Second, the paper considers and critiques local norms (e.g., widespread homophobia) and materials (e.g., the use of short-handled agricultural hoes) that may be discursively constructed as resistance to western imperialism. Three years of ethnographic research inform the paper (2013–2015, predominantly in Guatemala and Nicaragua), including hundreds of hours of interviews and participant observational fieldwork, in Spanish and English, with local stakeholders (e.g., teachers and homestay hosts) and Western volunteer tourists. Against a potent, recent, and very bloody history of U.S. cultural imperialism in Guatemala, western sojourners and their local hosts array themselves along a continuum of positions, from wishing to invite/impose U.S. norms and practices (under rubrics of "helping" and "expertise") to subscribing to (agri)cultural relativism and not wishing to exacerbate axiological violence through the adoption/ imposition of foreign ways.	./cache/cord-034296-8cl1jll8.txt	./txt/cord-034296-8cl1jll8.txt