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- Title
Doctors Without Burdens: The Neocolonial Ambivalence of White Masculinity in International Medical Aid.
- Authors
Hanchey, Jenna N.
- Abstract
Drawing from rhetorical field research at a nongovernmental aid organization in rural Tanzania, this essay investigates the relationship between U.S. hegemonic masculinity and neocolonialism in international aid work. Based on an analysis of how two different groups of U.S. medical students relate to their Tanzanian translators and patients, I demonstrate that aid provides a forum whereby hegemonic white masculinity can escape domestic crisis through a neocolonial fantasy of paternalism and control. At the same time, aid can also provide opportunities to decolonize international relationships through destabilizing hegemonic masculinities. Ultimately, I argue that international medical mission trips display an ambivalent space, inextricably caught up in both the recentering of white masculine dominance and its destabilization.
- Subjects
NEOCOLONIALISM; AMBIVALENCE; MASCULINITY; MEDICAL students; PATERNALISM
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2019.1576084