Saving the World? - Western Volunteers Rise of Humanitarian Development Complex

Innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable.

List of contents

Introduction: Western volunteers and the rise of the humanitarian-development complex; 1. An idea for all seasons; 2. Conquering the globe; 3. Buying into the humanitarian-development complex; 4. Sentimental radicals and adventurers; 5. The publicity machine; 6. The view from the other side; 7. A little colony; 8. The intimacy of the humanitarian-development complex; 9. Resistance; 10. To hell with good intentions.

About the author

Agnieszka Sobocinska first set foot in Asia while still in her teens.
The travel bug bit hard and she has since spent several years travelling,
living and working throughout the region. She is also an historian
and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Australian
Studies at Monash University. With David Walker, she is the coeditor
of Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century, which
is being translated into Mandarin. She's about to take on her biggest
challenge yet: leading a class of university students on a study
tour of Indonesia.

Summary

An innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable, even as critics in aid-recipient nations suggested it was a form of neocolonialism. It will benefit scholars and students of history, development studies and international relations.

Product details

• Authors: Agnieszka Sobocinska, Agnieszka (Monash University Sobocinska, Sobocinska Agnieszka
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108478137
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47813-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Global and International History; Global and International Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; General & world history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Australasian & Pacific history, General and world history, History of the Americas, International humanitarian law, Australasian and Pacific history, Public international law: humanitarian law