RESOURCES: WHITE SAVIOR COMPLEX

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podcasts

documentaries

webinars

books

ARTICLES

• Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector 

• Confronting the White Elephant: International Volunteering and Racial (Dis)advantage

• De-centring the ‘White Gaze’ of Development 

• De- Constructing the ‘White Saviour Syndrome’: A Manifestation of Neo- Imperialism

• How white saviourism harms international development

• INGOs can help dismantle development's 'white gaze,' PopWorks Africa founder says

• Opinion: The hustle — white saviors and hashtag activism

• ‘Poor Children on Tinder and their Barbie Saviours: Towards a Feminist Political Economy of Volunteer Tourism

• The Aid Industrial Complex In The Age of Black Lives Matter

• The aid sector must do more to tackle its white supremacy problem

• The Aid Industrial Complex in the Age of Black Lives Matter

• The White-Savior Industrial Complex

• What Can We Do about the White Savior Complex?

• Whiteness in Transit: The Racialised Geographies of International Volunteering

• Volunteering Abroad Forced me to Face My Own Privilege

Reports

Radi-Aid Research

A study of visual communication in six African Countries

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toolkit

The Power Behind Good Intentions

A toolkit for critical European volunteering organisations and Global Education practitioners

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