The Soft Side of Imperialism
Submitted on January 25, 2012
By LAURA AGUSTÍN - January 25, 2012
Relying on a belief in social evolution, development and modernization as objective truths, contemporary rescuers...consider themselves free, self-governing individuals born in the most civilized lands and therefore entitled to rule people in more backward ones...Here begins colonialism, the day-to-day imposition of value systems from outside, the permanent maintenance of the upper hand...The Rescue Industry, like the war on terrorism, relies on an image of the barbaric Other.
