Burden or Benefit?: Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies
In: Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction: What's Wrong with Benevolence? -- 2 A Short History of (Imperial) Benevolence -- Part 1 Colonial Burdens? -- 3 Thomas Fowell Buxton and the Networks of British Humanitarianism -- 4 Settler Colonialism, Utility, Romance: E. G. Wakefield's Letter from Sydney -- 5 Benevolence, Slavery, and the Periodicals -- 6 ''This Nineteenth Century of Progress and Humanity'': The Life and Times of Frederick Weld (1823-1891) -- 7 Women, Philanthropy, and Imperialism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 8 Blixen's Africa: Wonderland of the Self -- Part 2 Contemporary Benefits? -- 9 From Benevolence to Partnership: The Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Aotearoa-New Zealand -- 10 Refusing Benevolence: Gandhi, Nehru, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Relations -- 11 Rescuing African Women and Girls from Female Genital Practices: A Benevolent and Civilizing Mission -- 12 Benevolence and Humiliation: Thinking Migrants, Integration, and Security in Europe -- 13 Hearts, Minds, and Wetlands: Stakeholders and Ecological Restoration from the Everglades to the Mesopotamian Marshlands -- Contributors -- Index