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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... of whiteness that takes into account multiple and shifting sub- ject positions, the effects of discourse, and the possibility of refusing dominance. In working with the concept of bourgeois subjectivity from 10 Desire for Development.
... ] upon, the world.”50 Through personal accounting for action and self-description, unitary subjects work to compose non-contradictory identities both publicly and privately . In so doing , Challenging the Development Work(er) Narrative 11.
... accounting and self - description , then , storylines or narratives are central , 52 and comprise a technology of self ( in Foucauldian terms ) , since they are the means by which we internal- ize to ourselves , and comply with , the ...
... accounts of the two groups have to do, first, with developing in-depth relationships with African people, which seemed to happen less fre- quently among more recent development workers, a finding that has a parallel in Baaz's study of ...
... accounts rendered in the past tense, although I realize that doing so has significant implications for this study. My inten- tion is to avoid emotionally charged responses of the kind espoused by Goulet, and Goulet and Wilber,91 and, to ...
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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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