Burden or Benefit?

by Gilbert, Helen; Tiffin, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780253350770
• ISBN10: 0253350778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

The effects of international aid in colonial and postcolonial contexts

Author Biography

Helen Gilbert is Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is author of Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre and Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics.

Chris Tiffin teaches in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland and is editor of De-Scribing Empire, South Pacific Images, and South Pacific Stories.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What's Wrong with Benevolence?	p. 1
A Short History of (Imperial) Benevolence	p. 13
Colonial Burdens?
Thomas Fowell Buxton and the Networks of British Humanitarianism	p. 31
Settler Colonialism, Utility, Romance: E. G. Wakefield's Letter from Sydney	p. 49
Benevolence, Slavery, and the Periodicals	p. 61
"This Nineteenth Century of Progress and Humanity": The Life and Times of Frederick Weld (1823-1891)	p. 72
Women, Philanthropy, and Imperialism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain	p. 90
Blixen's Africa: Wonderland of the Self	p. 103
Contemporary Benefits?
From Benevolence to Partnership: The Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Aotearoa-New Zealand	p. 119
Refusing Benevolence: Gandhi, Nehru, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Relations	p. 136
Rescuing African Women and Girls from Female Genital Practices: A Benevolent and Civilizing Mission	p. 160
Benevolence and Humiliation: Thinking Migrants, Integration, and Security in Europe	p. 180
Hearts, Minds, and Wetlands: Stakeholders and Ecological Restoration from the Everglades to the Mesopotamian Marshlands	p. 198
List of Contributors	p. 215
Index	p. 221
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