Jim Butcher is reader, Christ Church Business School, Canterbury Christ Church University. He has written a number of books and articles looking at tourism: its critics, the claims made for it and why mass tourism should be celebrated in spite of the naysayers.
He has also written on a diverse subjects including citizenship, free speech, decoloniality and education. His latest book is Volunteer Tourism: the lifestyle politics of international development (Routledge, 2015).
Jim is also a union rep in the University College Union (UCU) and volunteers with a charity for young asylum seekers.
