The introduction to this collection brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and
grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded …

This paper explores the rise of voluntourism in Fiji, a country reliant on tourism but which is a
relatively new market for voluntourism. It draws from research examining the role of …

Faced with the scale of global challenges such as poverty and inequality, one question is
where to start. Humanitarian efforts can only ever have limited reach. Among all of human …

Grassroots initiatives to provide education were an integral part of efforts to stem the
humanitarian disaster unleashed by the armed conflict in Syria. This article studies activists …

Explores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who
volunteer In the past two decades, medical missions have gained popularity among medical …

This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations
(NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU). It analyses the …

Charitable fundraising appeals for international development created for potential donors in
the Global North are often, if not always, designed without the inclusion of voices and …

Small grassroots international governmental organizations have exploded in numbers in the
United States in the last couple of decades. Typically started as a passion project by a …

Neoliberal policies alter development funding, practice, and actors. One effect of this is an
increase in untrained individuals from the Global North who travel to the Global South to …

Thesis amendments 2022 Page 1 Short-Term Volunteering: Dominant Discourse and the
Practical Realities of Enacting Development in Ghana Submitted by Stephanie Houghton …