What is it about?
This article explains why educational field trips to places experiencing conflict may exploit victims of violence and compromise the ethics of students and/or their instructors. It offers a critical view of the structures that create this dynamic, and offers creative ideas for breaking out of it.
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Why is it important?
As demand for applied field experiences increases, this article can help to guide scholars, students and international employers in ensuring that their field trips are non-exploitative.
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This page is a summary of: Escaping the ‘Field Trap’: exploitation and the global politics of educational fieldwork in ‘conflict zones’, Third World Quarterly, August 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.824642.
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