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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... appears to entirely overlook the far more transforma- tive, and devastating, impact of a Canadian woman's sojourn on the lives of an African man, his wife, and their children. It is noteworthy that Keating had held on to this ...
... appear , rather , as manifestations of culture , and as such are illustrative of the meaning of Othering in postmodernist theory , where the “ Other , ” or difference from the unmarked norm , is conceptualized as produced through ...
... 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- tations ...
... appear to be in a state of unmanageable disarray, and where what seems to matter is not just the assistance that is given, but the helping imperative and the effect that “helping” the passive Other will have on our own life experiences ...
... appear to have been levied at students doing field placements or practica with African organizations as part of Northern universities' international development programs. Nevertheless, the concerns raised cannot be seen as limited 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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