Skeptically self-governed citizens: the ‘volunteer!’ injunction as a predicament of neoliberal life

The idea that anyone, with the right critical knowledge and a certain amount of spare time resources, could become globally responsible citizen has been skeptically questioned at least since Rousseau. But, during last two decades, specific concern troubled qualitative researchers possible complicity active neoliberal regime governmentality, often uses injunction to volunteer as political tactic responsibilization. article seeks address this latent through study particularly marketized act global citizenship: immersive experience travel. Through an innovative Foucauldian analysis original method, designed excavate deeply seated skeptical insights among returned volunteers in Australia, elucidates, first, how personal sense actually surfaces within market-mediated experience, and, second, ensuing predicament can be tackled, both from perspective academic on ground.