Desire for development [[electronic resource] ] : whiteness, gender, and the helping imperative / / Barbara Heron

• Autore: Heron Barbara <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42096; 305.48/9622
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - Social aspects; Imperialism; Power (Social sciences); Women in development - Developing countries; Women, White - Race identity; Women, White - Developing countries
• Soggetto geografico: Entwicklungsländer
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-184) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Desire for development
• ISBN: 1-282-16699-9; 9786613810069; 1-55458-098-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782626703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II