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Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties
Molly Geidel
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Paperback. Series: Critical American Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was the toughest job you'll ever love. In the United States' popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy's presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency's representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied ... Read more
To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was the toughest job you'll ever love. In the United States' popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy's presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency's representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Critical American Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692224
SKU
V9780816692224
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About Molly Geidel
Molly Geidel teaches American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
Reviews for Peace Corps Fantasies: How Development Shaped the Global Sixties
This provocative, well-researched, theory-driven cultural history is on solid ground in asserting that Peace Corps volunteers were agents of a Cold War strategy. -CHOICE Scholars of development should welcome this effort to critique the Peace Corps and provide insights into some neglected narratives, while others may find their interest sufficiently piqued to investigate the book's theoretical ... Read more