Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef

"[Brondo's] argument is sophisticated yet accessible even for nonspecialists: clear and persuasive, with its keystone Brondo's personal experience and activities in the local community."—CHOICE “Keri Brondo’s lively book offers an illuminating assessment of voluntourism at the nexus of conservation, capitalism, coloniality, and affect. Brondo strips away the boosterism that surrounds the care work of tourists to expose the dispossession that shapes human–nonhuman interactions within the marine and terrestrial environments of the Bay Islands of Honduras. Ethnographically and theoretically rich, Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration will be of great interest to students and scholars alike within political ecology, anthropology, geography, tourism studies, and Caribbean studies.”—Marcos Mendoza, author of The Patagonian Sublime: The Green Economy and Post-Neoliberal Politics