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

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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 rec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heron, Barbara, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Women, White > Developing countries.
Women, White > Race identity.
Women in development > Developing countries.
Power (Social sciences)
Economic development > Social aspects.
Imperialism.
Business.
Social sciences.
Women, White > Ethnic identity.
Social Sciences
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Social sciences
Business
Economic development > Social aspects
Imperialism
Women in development
Women, White
Ethnische Identität
Soziale Situation
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Weibliche Weiße
Frau
Weibliche Weisse.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 191 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781554580989
1554580986
1282166999
9781282166998
9786613810069
6613810061

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