Agnieszka Sobocinska

Saving the World?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478137
• ISBN-10: 1108478131
• Artikelnr.: 62123740

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.