Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: A collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture

Deville, A; Wearing, S; McDonald, M

Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: A collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture

Deville, A Wearing, S

McDonald, M

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016, 111 pp. 421 - 429
Issue Date:: 2016-01-16

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dc.contributor.author	Deville, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wearing, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-059X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	McDonald, M	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:04:57Z
dc.date.issued	2016-01-16	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016, 111 pp. 421 - 429	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0959-6526	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/41469
dc.description.abstract	© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. The purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual analysis of the space created by the Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF) host as a part of the organic farming movement and how that space now collides with the idea of tourism heterotopias as the changing market sees WWOOFers who may be less motivated by organic farming and more by a cheaper form of holiday. The resulting contested space is explored looking at the role and delicate balance of WWOOFing as a form of sustainable tourism in the context of socially constructed understandings of space. Poststructural concepts of space suggest that it is impermanent, fragile and under constant threat of change. Space is constantly produced and reproduced in the process, spaces become sites where struggle and contestation occur, in this instance as one discourse or discursive practice, namely WWOOFing, intersects with and is influenced by the more dominant capital centric discourse of mass tourism.	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP0561140R1
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Cleaner Production	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.12.071	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Environmental Sciences	en_US
dc.title	Tourism and Willing Workers on Organic Farms: A collision of two spaces in sustainable agriculture	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	111	en_US
utslib.for	1506 Tourism	en_US
utslib.for	0907 Environmental Engineering	en_US
utslib.for	0910 Manufacturing Engineering	en_US
utslib.for	0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	111	en_US

Abstract:

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. The purpose of this paper is to offer a conceptual analysis of the space created by the Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF) host as a part of the organic farming movement and how that space now collides with the idea of tourism heterotopias as the changing market sees WWOOFers who may be less motivated by organic farming and more by a cheaper form of holiday. The resulting contested space is explored looking at the role and delicate balance of WWOOFing as a form of sustainable tourism in the context of socially constructed understandings of space. Poststructural concepts of space suggest that it is impermanent, fragile and under constant threat of change. Space is constantly produced and reproduced in the process, spaces become sites where struggle and contestation occur, in this instance as one discourse or discursive practice, namely WWOOFing, intersects with and is influenced by the more dominant capital centric discourse of mass tourism.

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