Generation NGO

by Alisha Nicole Apale (Editor), Valerie Stam (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926662541
Publisher:	Between the Lines
Publication date:	05/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	355,762
File size:	768 KB

About the Author

Valerie Stam has studied income generation among refugees in Ghana, worked on peacebuilding, disarmament and the women’s peace movement in Senegal, and explored the intersection of women, politics and conflict in India. She is a Community Developer at a Community Health Centre in Ottawa where she enjoys translating her overseas development experience into local practice.

Alisha Nicole Apale coordinates the Aboriginal Health Initiative of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Canada. She has a particular interest in the health issues experienced by vulnerable populations within highly inequitable countries, including in Canada, and the inter-sectoral nature of public health and health systems development.

Alisha Nicole Apale coordinates the Aboriginal Health Initiative of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Canada. She has a particular interest in the health issues experienced by vulnerable populations within highly inequitable countries, including in Canada, and the inter-sectoral nature of public health and health systems development.

Valerie Stam has studied income generation among refugees in Ghana, worked on peacebuilding, disarmament and the women’s peace movement in Senegal, and explored the intersection of women, politics and conflict in India. She is a Community Developer at a Community Health Centre in Ottawa where she enjoys translating her overseas development experience into local practice.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Contexts and Consequences

Chapter 1: Walls Topped with Broken Glass: On Privilege
* Pike Krpan *

Chapter 2: Adding Things up in Namibia
* Zoe Kahn *

Chapter 3: A Night out in Malindi
* Laura Sie *

Chapter 4: No Man Is an Island: Lessons in Interdependence Learned in Barbados

* Alika Hendricks *

Chapter 5: In a Just World, Displacement Would Be Shocking
* Alisha Nicole Apale *

Chapter 6: Salama, vazaha!
* Maro Adjemian *

Chapter 7: Travelling to El Otro Lado


* Simon Yale Strauss *

Chapter 8: Friendship, Inequality, and Professional Development


* Julia Paulson *

Chapter 9: Coming Home to Foreignness


* Valerie Stam *

Chapter 10: You Go and Come


* Heidi Braun *

Notes and Acknowledgments

Preface