Desire for development : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / Barbara Heron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heron, Barbara, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

Imperialism.

Power (Social sciences).

Women in development--Developing countries.

Women in development.

Women, White--Race identity.

Women, White.

Women, White--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 b

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Challenging the Development Work(er) Narrative; 2. Where Do Development Workers Really Come From?; 3. Development Is ... a Relational Experience; 4. Negotiating Subject Positions, Constituting Selves; 5. Participants' Retrospectives: Complicating Desire; 6. Summing Up, Drawing Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and index.

ISBN:

9786613810069

9781282166998

1282166999

9781554580989

1554580986

OCLC:

236359646