Desire for development :: whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative /
"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 rec...
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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2007.
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Zusammenfassung: | "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 through the decision to go overseas to 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 North-South binary, in which Canada's national narrative situates us as the "good guys" of the world."--Jacket. |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (x, 191 pages) |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781554580989 1554580986 1282166999 9781282166998 9786613810069 6613810061 |
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title | Desire for development : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / |
title_auth | Desire for development : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / |
title_exact_search | Desire for development : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / |
title_full | Desire for development : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / Barbara Heron. |
title_fullStr | Desire for development : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / Barbara Heron. |
title_full_unstemmed | Desire for development : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / Barbara Heron. |
title_short | Desire for development : |
title_sort | desire for development whiteness gender and the helping imperative |
title_sub | whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / |
topic | Women, White Developing countries. Women, White Race identity. Women in development Developing countries. Power (Social sciences) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105976 Economic development Social aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040809 Imperialism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064628 Business. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018260 Social sciences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124003 Women, White Ethnic identity. Social Sciences https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012942 Commerce https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003132 Blanches Pays en voie de développement. Blanches Identité ethnique. Femmes dans le développement Pays en voie de développement. Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) Développement économique Aspect social. Impérialisme. Affaires. Sciences sociales. social sciences. aat business (commercial function) aat SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations. bisacsh Social sciences fast Business fast Economic development Social aspects fast Imperialism fast Power (Social sciences) fast Women in development fast Women, White fast Ethnische Identität gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4153096-2 Soziale Situation gnd Wirtschaftliche Lage gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4248362-1 Weibliche Weiße gnd Frau gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4018202-2 Blanches Pays en voie de développement. rvm Blanches Identité ethnique. rvm Femmes dans le développement Pays en voie de développement. rvm Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) rvm Développement économique Aspect social. rvm Impérialisme. rvm Weibliche Weisse. swd |
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