Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
4-11-2017
Year of Publication
2017
Degree Name
Master of Science in Community & Leadership Development
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Agriculture, Food and Environment
Department/School/Program
Community and Leadership Development
First Advisor
Dr. Patricia Hyjer Dyk
Abstract
Short-term missions participants encounter difference in purportedly captivating ways. Current research, however, indicates the practice does not lead to long-lasting, positive change. Brian M. Howell (2012) argues the short-term missions experience is confined to the limitations of the short-term missions narrative. People who engage in short-term missions build assumptions, seek experiences, understand difference, and convey meaning, as a result of this narrative. The process of telling and retelling travel stories is integral to the short-term missions experience. Drawing upon literature on tourism, narrative, development, and photography, this study intends to evaluate the inefficacy of short-term missions through the stories which produce and are produced by photography. Through storytelling and photography from 21 short-term missions participants who have served in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, this project deconstructs the short-term missions narrative to understand, what is the relationship between the use of photography and the short-term missions experience? The results indicate a unique relationship between people, photography, and experiences within the framework of short-term missions.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.055
Recommended Citation
Jennings, Joshua Kerby, "On Making a Difference: How Photography and Narrative Produce the Short-Term Missions Experience" (2017). Theses and Dissertations--Community & Leadership Development. 32.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cld_etds/32
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