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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... live in an unnamed African country as a development worker in the 1970s. In the film, the Canadian woman's domestic ... lives of an African man, his wife, and their children. It is noteworthy that Keating had held on to this perspective ...
... live has the effect of increasing and escalating the Othering that has inhered in various kinds of representations over time , in part because the images received in the North come without historical analysis . They appear , rather , as ...
... lives, to help lives, to save lives, especially the women and children who are always the most vulnerable. It's like a new renaissance of commitment, a rejuvenated peace corps. They love it and it's invaluable.20 Here again is a story ...
... lives in “developing countries,” when living out the distances between the rhetoric and the reality of the Northern development project in the South, and between their/our own moral commitments and complicated positionings in rela ...
... live, including the appropri- ate—and essential—(hetero)sexual practices for bourgeois membership. The process of drawing the distinctions that could secure a middle- class identity placed the bourgeois subject in deeply imbricated rela ...
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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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