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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... domination.29 While it is recognized that these dis- courses have been in play since colonial times, the specific continuities under consideration here have received little attention. This is so despite the fact that, as was once ...
... domination are kept in play, “the devil is in the detail.” I am interested in a particular facet of these relations—in the indi- viduals who, like myself, enact the processes of Northern interventions called “development.” What calls us ...
... in the issues I raise in respect to relations of domination. Similarly, in writing about white middle-class women, or Canadian women development workers, I use the first-person plural so as to 18 Desire for Development.
... domination will continue . This has been debated within whiteness studies , and in the end I agree with Warren on two counts : first , as Warren has said , “ if we uncover how race gets made and how the social , cultural meaningfulness ...
... domination. In the conclusion, Chapter 6, I reflect on the investments of white women development workers like myself in our desire for devel- opment, and in what we see and do not want to see of our responsibil- ity for domination ...
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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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