African Studies Program Sandwich Seminar

Lisa Bintrim, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, will explore transforming ideas of development through the emergence of voluntourism, with particular attention to how these ideas and practices are experienced in Malawi. Bintrim will argue that traditional models of development that place development actors in a dichotomous, and often oppositional, relationship fail to account for the mutual construction of projects through negotiation.