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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... things as at once preferable and right , since the North , especially Canada , appears orderly , clean , and well managed in comparison . In this way our " development gaze , " in the words of Longreen , is constructed and directed.7 ...
... things that excites and astounds me is that when I travel, no matter how distressing the circumstances—refugee camps, camps for internally displaced people, conflict, floods, famines—I see everywhere young foreign persons, aged roughly ...
... thing to do constitutes the agency of white middle-class Christian-raised Americans, but that the ethical code is dif- ferentiated by gender, so that when a woman from the dominant group attempts to animate the agency normally reserved ...
... thing” that acts on a person, although there is a process of auto-colonization involved—the accept- ance of subjugation—via what Foucault has called technologies of self, which are the ways in which individuals comply (or not) with ...
... things of this nature, are not development; they are tools of development.”60 If African definitions of development reflect shared cultural values, they equally depend on African ways of knowing, so that it is not surprising that these ...
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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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