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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... moral, and to be seen by others this way, the racialization inhabiting some of our most commonplace understandings of global realities may threaten even while silently affirm- ing the moral cohesion of bourgeois subjects' unitary views ...
... ethics also leads me to a somewhat different conclusion about white middle-class women's investments in preserving a moral narrative. This is a distinction that has important implications for resisting whiteness. How to resist whiteness ...
... 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 meanings that circulate in dis- course . It is this narrative ...
... moral commitments and complicated positionings in rela- tions of power vis-à-vis the “Third World” Other? To explore ... narrative that is fairly impervious to change, and this is reflected in the stories told by both sets of ...
... moral high ground as the person with the greater, or “true,” anti-racist analysis. These authors warn that research ... stories, and acknowl- edging at this point that my own narratives are, despite some personal inflections born of my ...
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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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