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03537aam a2200469 i 4500 001 A91AE1EC323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 201222t20212021enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781108478137 020 $a 1108478131 035 $a (OCoLC)1227691833 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UAB $d EAU $d SILO 043 $a d------ 050 4 $a HV544.5 $b .S29 2021 100 1 $a Sobocinska, Agnieszka, $e author. 245 10 $a Saving the world? : $b Western volunteers and the rise of the humanitarian-development complex / $c Agnieszka Sobocinska. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 318 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Global and international history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-304) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex -- Part I. Intentions : 1. An Idea for All Seasons -- 2. Conquering the Globe -- 3. Buying into the Humanitarian-Development Complex -- 4. Sentimental Radicals and Adventurers -- Part II. Images : 5. The Publicity Machine -- 6. The View from the Other Side -- Part III. Experiences : 7. A Little Colony -- 8. The Intimacy of the Humanitarian-Development Complex -- 9. Resistance -- 10. To Hell with Good Intentions. 520 $a From the 1960s, 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--back cover 650 0 $a Humanitarian assistance $z Developing countries $x History. 650 0 $a Economic assistance $x History. 650 0 $a Voluntarism $z Developing countries $x History. 650 0 $a Imperialism. 651 0 $a Western countries $x Foreign economic relations $z Developing countries. 651 0 $a Developing countries $x Foreign economic relations $z Western countries. 650 7 $a Economic assistance. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901592 650 7 $a Humanitarian assistance. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963553 650 7 $a Imperialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968126 650 7 $a International economic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00976891 650 7 $a Voluntarism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01168976 651 7 $a Developing countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242969 651 7 $a Western countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01302083 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781108805704 830 0 $a Global and international history. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019023205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A91AE1EC323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search