Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping ImperativeWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 4 груд. 2007 р. - 191 стор. In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants to bring theory to life and to generate new understandings of whiteness and development work. Heron reveals how the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered, and she exposes the moral core of this self and its seemingly paradoxical necessity to the Other. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the NorthSouth binary, in which Canada’s national narrative situates us as the “good guys” of the world. |
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... Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences , through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme , using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada . We acknowledge the financial ...
... Canada internal York University grant supported me to carry out addi- tional interviews with recently returned development workers in the spring of 2005, and two Atkinson research grants from York University helped me to ascertain ...
... Canadian film called The Midday Sun. It is based on incidents that occurred when a young, white Canadian woman went to live in an unnamed African country as a development worker in the 1970s. In the film, the Canadian woman's domestic ...
... development worker's life and in her own ; it calls to me personally while evoking recollections of similar reactions on the part of Canadians I knew over the years southern Africa . in Why begin a book about Canadian women's desire to ...
... Canada , appears orderly , clean , and well managed in comparison . In this way our " development gaze , " in the words of Longreen , is constructed and directed.7 The " Third World " is also familiar to us through literary represen ...
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3 Development Is a Relational Experience | 55 |
4 Negotiating Subject Positions Constituting Selves | 91 |
Complicating Desire | 123 |
6 Summing Up Drawing Conclusions | 147 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliography | 175 |
Index | 185 |
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