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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... relationship between all these in the production of whiteness. However, at times I use white in order to stress the salience of race in rela- tion to the other aspects of bourgeois identity at a given moment. This is a subjectivity that ...
... relationship. Attending to the intersections of race, class, and gender and drawing on critical studies of colonialism as I track colonial continuities, I build on their analyses and thereby further efforts to fill this lacuna. Feminist ...
... relationships in Tanzania and Goudge's Nicaraguan - based study of racism in aid and development work.69 Kothari and White have also written about racism in development work , and Simpson has examined Othering in “ voluntour ...
... relationships with their Cambodian counterparts.72 Mindry has examined gendered represen- tations of virtue in relations between aid workers , both foreign and nationals , working with local women's organizations in Durban , South ...
... relationship with the former colonizing powers, thereby con- tinuing exploitative relations that have been operating ... relationships with African people, which seemed to happen less fre- quently among more recent development workers, a ...
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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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