- EAN13
- 9781554580996
- Éditeur
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Date de publication
- 04/12/2007
- Langue
- anglais
- Langue d'origine
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Desire for Development
Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative
Barbara Heron
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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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.
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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