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Helen Gilbert, Chris Tiffin. In the name of benevolence, philanthropy, and humanitarian aid, individuals, groups, and nations have sought to assist others and to redress forms of suffering and deprivation.

Helen Gilbert, Chris Tiffin. Yet the inherent imbalances of power between the giver and the recipient of this benevolence have called into question the motives and rationale for such assistance. This volume examines the evolution of the ideas and practices of benevolence, chiefly in the context of British imperialism, from the late 18th century to the present.

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in Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin (eds), Burden or Benefit? . the relationship between benevolence and self-interest. a suspicion about self-interest has lingered, and genuine benevolence has been thought to exclude donor gain, to overlap with, if not be identical to, altruism.

in Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin (eds), Burden or Benefit? Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008) p. 1 It bespeaks goodwill, but it also speaks inequality; it involves the willingness and power to give, but it also involves demands and obligations that are sometimes complicated and unwelcome. Benevolence," like "peace" or "freedom," is a quality that seems axiomatically positive and unexceptionable.

Critical literature about the British Empire and its legacies is diverse and vast in extent, and it has been changing gradually in emphasis and evaluation. The imperial rhetoric of benevolence propounded paternalism, a strategy that subordinated indigenous peoples and their traditional cultures to British civilisation. The basic assumption that lay in the imperial rhetorics of benevolence was the belief that colonisation was inherently good to colonised peoples.

Series: Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies. Published by: Indiana University Press. Book Description: In the name of benevolence, philanthropy, and humanitarian aid, individuals, groups, and nations have sought to assist others and to redress forms of suffering and deprivation.

Home Browse Books Book details, Burden or Benefit? Imperial Benevolence and Its. Chris Tiffin and Helen Gilbert. Burden or Benefit? Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies. By Helen Gilbert, Chris Tiffin. A cartoon in the New Yorker shows an executive on his way to work trying to avoid a panhandler who asks, Spare a little eye contact? This cartoon wittily presents some of the ambivalence and awkwardness associated with that relationship variously called benevolence, philanthropy, charity, or humanitarianism.

Burden or benefit?: imperial benevolence and its legacies. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, the University of Western Australia, 1996. Indiana University Press, 2008. Wild Man From Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan. R Cribb, H Gilbert, H Tiffin.