Walls Topped with Broken Glass: On Privilege -- Adding Things up in Namibia -- A Night out in Malindi -- No Man Is an Island: Lessons in Interdependence Learned in Barbados -- In a Just World, Displacement Would Be Shocking -- Salama, vazaha! -- Travelling to El Otro Lado -- Friendship, Inequality, and Professional Development -- Coming Home to Foreignness -- You Go and Come.
Summary:
"Young Canadians are increasingly active and engaged in global issues. Many are eagerly poised to contribute--in smaller and even larger ways--to international development and the Canadian national politics that, for better or worse, shape the field. Generation NGO captures some of the first impressions of these young international development professionals before they are relegated to the dusty corners of memory. It provides snapshots of some of their first experiences with inequality and poverty, power and privilege, stereotypes, identity, social location, prejudice, and injustice. It is as much about questions as it is about answers. These essays illustrate the continual negotiation of development workers in positioning and conducting themselves in a morally and ethically charged profession." -- Publisher's website.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.