03569nam 2200877Ia 450 991097223990332120200520144314.09786613810069978128216699812821669999781554580989155458098610.51644/9781554580989(CKB)1000000000714136(EBL)685670(OCoLC)236359646(SSID)ssj0000278614(PQKBManifestationID)11195888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278614(PQKBWorkID)10258928(PQKB)11642678(CaPaEBR)420963(CaBNvSL)thg00604285 (MdBmJHUP)muse14367(Au-PeEL)EBL685670(CaPaEBR)ebr10227065(CaONFJC)MIL381006(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/z6p4pf(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/7/420963(MiAaPQ)EBC685670(MiAaPQ)EBC3255593(PPN)238417379(DE-B1597)667866(DE-B1597)9781554580989(FR-PaCSA)88870251(FRCYB88870251)88870251(Perlego)1706399(EXLCZ)99100000000071413620070718d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesire for development whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative /Barbara Heron1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press20071 online resource (202 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781554580019 1554580013 Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and index.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; IndexIn 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 bEconomic developmentSocial aspectsImperialismPower (Social sciences)Women in developmentDeveloping countriesWomen, WhiteRace identityWomen, WhiteDeveloping countriesEconomic developmentSocial aspects.Imperialism.Power (Social sciences)Women in developmentWomen, WhiteRace identity.Women, White305.42096305.48/9622Heron Barbara1949-1798998MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972239903321Desire for development4342073UNINA