In Intimate Colonialism, the reader who wants more meaningful and authentic reflection on our powerful overseas years may find welcome daylight. In doing so, she brings to life a world beyond the popular stereotype of a Peace Corps volunteer. Her deep engagement as a qualitative researcher affords her and her reader a rare view of life beyond the official
- Title : Intimate Colonialism: Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives)
- Author : Laurie L. Charlés
- Rating : 4.66 (258 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-2-26
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 256 Pages
- Asin : 1598741055
- Language : English
In Intimate Colonialism, the reader who wants more meaningful and authentic reflection on our powerful overseas years may find welcome daylight. In doing so, she brings to life a world beyond the popular stereotype of a Peace Corps volunteer. Her deep engagement as a qualitative researcher affords her and her reader a rare view of life beyond the official role. The experiences Charlés details are strikingly recognizable to me, and I suspect will be to other returned Volunteers, especially women, regardless of their host country or era of service…. and boundless enthusiasm, Charles left the academe for a year-long stint with the Peace Corps in Africa. Charged with developing a program to help girls and young women stay in school, she immediately encountered the many reasons why they did not. As she writes, ‘Living in Africa disoriented me into wakefulness.’ Her storyThis eloquent narrative should be of interest both to those doing development work and to those interested in autoethnographic exploration of the self.. Her candid assessment of life and work in Africa, the intimate relationships that gave hope to the possibility of change, the emotional and physical highs and lows that affected her ability to function, all become factors affecting her success in improving the lives of African girls. Laurie Charlés finished her Ph.D., then took off to West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. Charlés found love, sexual fulfillment, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination, all of which further complexified her stated mission. Asked to create programs to help adolescent girls stay in school, she found herself enmeshed in the politics and cultural barriers that prevent these girls from creating a better life. But that was not all that was enmeshedLaurie Charlés is assistant professor in the family therapy program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Graduate College of Education. in family therapy from Nova Southeastern University, then served in the Peace Corps in Togo. She earned a Ph.D.
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