Generation NGO

Description

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. A must-read collection for Canadians contemplating development work abroad, this collection will also provide food for thought for more seasoned veterans of NGO forays long after they have returned from the field. Preface Introduction: Contexts and Consequences 1 Walls Topped with Broken Glass: On Privilege, Pike Krpan 2 Adding Things up in Namibia, Zoe Khan 3 A Night out in Malindi, Laura Madeleine Sie 4 No Man Is an Island: Lessons in Interdependence Learned in Barbados, Alika Hendricks 5 In a Just World, Displacement Would Be Shocking, Alisha Nicole Apale 6 Salama, vazaha! Maro Adjemian 7 Travelling to El Otro Lado, Simon Yale Strauss 8 Friendship, Inequality, and Professional Development, Julia Paulson 9 Coming Home to Foreignness, Valerie Stam 10 You Go and Come, Heidi Braun Notes and Acknowledgments Contributors