Dr Robert Fletcher

Dr Robert Fletcher

Robert Fletcher

Robert Fletch­er is Asso­ci­ate Pro­fess­or in the Soci­ology of Devel­op­ment and Change group at Wagen­in­gen Uni­ver­sity. Dr Fletch­er is the author of Roman­cing the Wild: Cul­tur­al Dimen­sions of Eco­tour­ism (Duke Uni­ver­sity, 2014) and co-edit­or of Nature™ Inc.: Envir­on­ment­al Con­ser­va­tion in the Neo­lib­er­al Age (Uni­ver­sity of Ari­zona, 2014).

‘Jouissance’: The pleasure & pain of ‘ethical donor tourism’ in Africa

and January 18, 2022
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Zebra stripes at Dikhololo Game Reserve, Brits, South Africa. Photo by David Clarke (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/sN6d60TySV0

Some of the very wealthy among us love to live large in Africa’s mag­ni­fi­cent land­scape, to observe (and hunt) its icon­ic wild­life. While they are there it is good that they give gen­er­ously to eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, phil­an­throp­ic, and con­ser­va­tion pro­jects, no? Are we miss­ing some­thing? Aca­dem­ics Stasja Koot and Robert Fletch­er think so.  It’s a “Good […]

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