Resources
John H. Bodley - “The Price of Progress,” Chapter 9 in Victims of Progress (1975)
This piece presents the potential negative implications from current concepts of progress. Bodley points out that development can lead to physical disease, poverty, and environmental stresses. Instead, Bodley encourages that success must not be measured in size of economies, but in the overall well-being of those affected by the development.
Laura Bohannan – “Shakespeare in the Bush”
Bohannan offers her personal story and her attempt to explain Shakespeare with “universal” themes to rural tribes in Africa. She quickly realizes “universal” themes are not so universal. The reader is able to realize the extent of culture’s influence on human concepts and perspectives, both of her own culture and the tribal culture.
Bill Donahue – “My virtuous vacation”
This piece explores the impact of service work that the offer took part in on a past vacation. Donahue analyzes his service work and its effectiveness. He goes on to question who the real beneficiaries of the service work, the locals or the individuals doing the service work. The reader is able to analyze their own pastor future service work and challenge the impact of their work.
Paul Farmer – “On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below”
In this piece, two individuals are forced into difficult situations due to social, cultural, and governmental structures that quietly, but prominently shape their lives. Farmer continues to explore social structures that negatively impact populations that are often found powerless and unable to bring about positive change. The piece offers a powerful insight into the meaning of suffering and the causes of struggle.
Ben Feinberg - “What Students Don’t Learn Abroad”
This piece challenges the idealized view of traveling abroad that many students hold. The article can help those traveling abroad in adopting a more conscious and ethnocentric worldview; without this worldview, an abroad experience can be undermined and one would not benefit fully from their abroad experience.
Edward T. Hall – Beyond Culture (1976)
Hall’s book challenges the reader to expand their concepts of culture both foreign and familiar. The reader is encouraged to analyze cultural impacts and perceptions. One is able to explore a greater awareness of structures society creates concerning culture.
William B. Hart- “The Intercultural Sojourn as the Hero's Journey”
This article deals with individual’s traveling experiences abroad and parallels them with the typical hero’s journey. Individuals traveling tend to experience the following stages: honeymoon stage, crisis, recovery, adjustment, a return home, crisis at home, and adjustment at home. The article helps the traveler better understand their experiences and their reactions to them as well. It is well suited for an individual who is about to travel or have just returned from traveling.
James Jasper – “The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions in and around Social Movements” (1998)
In Jasper’s piece, he explores the emotions that drive protest. Aspects of emotions that organizers of protests call upon when they search for members in the public are featured prominently in this article. Jasper offers the reader a stimulating insight into the emotional component of protest and encourages one to become more aware of the roles emotions can have social movements.
David Korten – The Great Turning (2007)
This book focuses on the state of peril that our world is in today. As a result of the minority being the powerful and decision makers in our global society, the world has developed into a state of peril. Korten offers a positive message by explaining that change is not impossible if people unite in perspectives and make changes that can ultimately ease many of the world’s problems. The book incorporates macro-levels of development but also stresses the importance of micro level development and changes in societies in order to work towards a greater global society, ultimately, an “earth community.”
Moyo – Dead Aid (2009)
Moyo’s book offers a perspective of aid in Africa that not many people are exposed to. She critiques the long history of foreign aid in Africa and credits the underdevelopment of the continent to such aid. Instead, Moyo argues for more encouragement in African development and more accountability in the type of aid that I offered to Africa in order for the continent to thrive by its own means.
Richard Reed – Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors (2009)
The history and social situation of the Guaraní in Paraguay are explore in this book. Reed offers an insight into the Guaraní way of life and how our first-worldview of progress, deforestation and farming, has impacted these peoples. While this form of progress, foreign to the Guaraní led to quick profits, it is not a lasting model. Instead, Reed advocates for traditional Guaraní models as a form of sustainable development.
Norman Uphoff, et al. – Reasons for Success (1998)
This book offers a variety of case studies concerning development project that incorporate local populations. By including the local population, even at the most basic organizational levels, Uphoff advocates that this model can enhance the successfulness and sustainability of development projects throughout the world.
“What’s Up with Culture?” (From the University of the Pacific’s School of International Studies)
An interactive website that features detailed concepts of traveling abroad. The website is a tool for those that have traveled abroad or will travel abroad. Topics covered include culture shock, fatigue, stress, and reverse culture shock.
This piece presents the potential negative implications from current concepts of progress. Bodley points out that development can lead to physical disease, poverty, and environmental stresses. Instead, Bodley encourages that success must not be measured in size of economies, but in the overall well-being of those affected by the development.
Laura Bohannan – “Shakespeare in the Bush”
Bohannan offers her personal story and her attempt to explain Shakespeare with “universal” themes to rural tribes in Africa. She quickly realizes “universal” themes are not so universal. The reader is able to realize the extent of culture’s influence on human concepts and perspectives, both of her own culture and the tribal culture.
Bill Donahue – “My virtuous vacation”
This piece explores the impact of service work that the offer took part in on a past vacation. Donahue analyzes his service work and its effectiveness. He goes on to question who the real beneficiaries of the service work, the locals or the individuals doing the service work. The reader is able to analyze their own pastor future service work and challenge the impact of their work.
Paul Farmer – “On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below”
In this piece, two individuals are forced into difficult situations due to social, cultural, and governmental structures that quietly, but prominently shape their lives. Farmer continues to explore social structures that negatively impact populations that are often found powerless and unable to bring about positive change. The piece offers a powerful insight into the meaning of suffering and the causes of struggle.
Ben Feinberg - “What Students Don’t Learn Abroad”
This piece challenges the idealized view of traveling abroad that many students hold. The article can help those traveling abroad in adopting a more conscious and ethnocentric worldview; without this worldview, an abroad experience can be undermined and one would not benefit fully from their abroad experience.
Edward T. Hall – Beyond Culture (1976)
Hall’s book challenges the reader to expand their concepts of culture both foreign and familiar. The reader is encouraged to analyze cultural impacts and perceptions. One is able to explore a greater awareness of structures society creates concerning culture.
William B. Hart- “The Intercultural Sojourn as the Hero's Journey”
This article deals with individual’s traveling experiences abroad and parallels them with the typical hero’s journey. Individuals traveling tend to experience the following stages: honeymoon stage, crisis, recovery, adjustment, a return home, crisis at home, and adjustment at home. The article helps the traveler better understand their experiences and their reactions to them as well. It is well suited for an individual who is about to travel or have just returned from traveling.
James Jasper – “The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions in and around Social Movements” (1998)
In Jasper’s piece, he explores the emotions that drive protest. Aspects of emotions that organizers of protests call upon when they search for members in the public are featured prominently in this article. Jasper offers the reader a stimulating insight into the emotional component of protest and encourages one to become more aware of the roles emotions can have social movements.
David Korten – The Great Turning (2007)
This book focuses on the state of peril that our world is in today. As a result of the minority being the powerful and decision makers in our global society, the world has developed into a state of peril. Korten offers a positive message by explaining that change is not impossible if people unite in perspectives and make changes that can ultimately ease many of the world’s problems. The book incorporates macro-levels of development but also stresses the importance of micro level development and changes in societies in order to work towards a greater global society, ultimately, an “earth community.”
Moyo – Dead Aid (2009)
Moyo’s book offers a perspective of aid in Africa that not many people are exposed to. She critiques the long history of foreign aid in Africa and credits the underdevelopment of the continent to such aid. Instead, Moyo argues for more encouragement in African development and more accountability in the type of aid that I offered to Africa in order for the continent to thrive by its own means.
Richard Reed – Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors (2009)
The history and social situation of the Guaraní in Paraguay are explore in this book. Reed offers an insight into the Guaraní way of life and how our first-worldview of progress, deforestation and farming, has impacted these peoples. While this form of progress, foreign to the Guaraní led to quick profits, it is not a lasting model. Instead, Reed advocates for traditional Guaraní models as a form of sustainable development.
Norman Uphoff, et al. – Reasons for Success (1998)
This book offers a variety of case studies concerning development project that incorporate local populations. By including the local population, even at the most basic organizational levels, Uphoff advocates that this model can enhance the successfulness and sustainability of development projects throughout the world.
“What’s Up with Culture?” (From the University of the Pacific’s School of International Studies)
An interactive website that features detailed concepts of traveling abroad. The website is a tool for those that have traveled abroad or will travel abroad. Topics covered include culture shock, fatigue, stress, and reverse culture shock.
