Burden or Benefit?: Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies

241 Pages·2008·1.006 MB·English

by  Helen Gilbert, Chris Tiffin

BURDEN OR BENEFIT?
PHILANTHROPIC AND NONPROFIT STUDIES
Dwight F.Burlingame and David C.Hammack,editors
BURDEN OR BENEFIT?
IMPERIAL BENEVOLENCE AND ITS LEGACIES
Edited by Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin
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ISBN-13:978-0-253-21960-2(pbk.:alk.paper) 1. Benevo-
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
1.Introduction:What’sWrongwithBenevolence?
Chris Tiffin and Helen Gilbert 1
2.AShortHistoryof(Imperial)Benevolence
Patrick Brantlinger 13
Part 1.Colonial Burdens?
3.ThomasFowellBuxtonandtheNetworks
ofBritishHumanitarianism
Alan Lester 31
4.SettlerColonialism,Utility,Romance:
E.G.Wakefield’sLetterfromSydney
Lisa O’Connell 49
5.Benevolence,Slavery,andthePeriodicals
Chris Tiffin 61
6.“ThisNineteenthCenturyofProgressandHumanity”:
TheLifeandTimesofFrederickWeld(1823–1891)
Leigh Dale 72
7.Women,Philanthropy,andImperialismin
EarlyNineteenth-CenturyBritain
Sarah Richardson 90
8.Blixen’sAfrica:WonderlandoftheSelf
Kirsten Holst Petersen 103
Part 2.Contemporary Benefits?
9.FromBenevolencetoPartnership:ThePersistence
ofColonialLegaciesinAotearoa–NewZealand
Chris Prentice 119
CONTENTS
10.RefusingBenevolence:Gandhi,Nehru,
andtheEthicsofPostcolonialRelations
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 136
11.RescuingAfricanWomenandGirlsfrom
FemaleGenitalPractices:ABenevolent
andCivilizingMission
Wairimu˜ Ngaru˜iya Njambi 160
12.BenevolenceandHumiliation:ThinkingMigrants,
Integration,andSecurityinEurope
Prem Kumar Rajaram 180
13.Hearts,Minds,andWetlands:Stakeholders
andEcologicalRestorationfromtheEverglades
totheMesopotamianMarshlands
William E.O’Brien 198
LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS 215
INDEX 221
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WewouldliketoacknowledgetheUniversityofQueenslandforseedfunding
oftheprojectunderitsSmallGrantsscheme,andthemembersoftheQueens-
landPostcolonialGroupforwide-rangingandproductivediscussioninthede-
velopmentofseveralofthepapers.AmandaLynchprovidedresearchassistance
totheprojectwithcustomaryenergy,accuracyandimaginationandCarolA.
Kennedyscrutinisedthemanuscriptwithsympatheticyetforensicthorough-
ness.Theeditorswouldalsoliketothankthecontributorsfortheirgenerousre-
sponsestorequestsforclarificationorsupplementationoftheirargumentsand
fortheirpatienceasthebookadvancedtopublication.
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