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Saving the World? - Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex (Paperback)
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Saving the World? - Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex (Paperback)
Series: Global and International History
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From the 1950s, tens of thousands of well-meaning Westerners left
their homes to volunteer in distant corners of the globe. Aflame
with optimism, they set out to save the world, but their actions
were invariably intertwined with decolonization, globalization and
the Cold War. Closely exploring British, American and Australian
programs, Agnieszka Sobocinska situates Western volunteers at the
heart of the 'humanitarian-development complex'. This nexus of
governments, NGOs, private corporations and public opinion
encouraged continuous and accelerating intervention in the Global
South from the 1950s. Volunteers attracted a great deal of support
in their home countries. But critics across the Global South
protested that volunteers put an attractive face on neocolonial
power, and extended the logic of intervention embedded in the
global system of international development. Saving the World?
brings together a wide range of sources to construct a rich
narrative of the meeting between Global North and Global South.
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