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Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States

Author : Seung-Kyung Kim
Publisher : Center for Korea Studies Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780295748122
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States written by Seung-Kyung Kim and published by Center for Korea Studies Publications. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Studies scholars in the US, reflect in this volume on their personal experience of serving during Korea's period of military dictatorship, on issues of gender and the Peace Corps experience, and on how random assignment to Korea sparked fascination and led to lifelong professional involvement with the country. Two chapters by Korean studies scholars who were not Peace Corps volunteers (one American and one Korean) assess how Peace Corps volunteers have influenced development of the field"--

Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle

Author : Moritz Thomsen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295969282
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle written by Moritz Thomsen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook

Author : Travis Hellstrom
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557570980
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook written by Travis Hellstrom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peace Corps Fantasies

Author : Molly Geidel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452945268
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Peace Corps Fantasies written by Molly Geidel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied by iconic Peace Corps volunteers, allowed U.S. policy makers to manage global inequality while assuaging their own gendered anxieties about postwar affluence. Geidel traces how modernization theorists used the Peace Corps to craft the archetype of the heroic development worker: a ruggedly masculine figure who would inspire individuals and communities to abandon traditional lifestyles and seek integration into the global capitalist system. Drawing on original archival and ethnographic research, Geidel analyzes how Peace Corps volunteers struggled to apply these ideals. The book focuses on the case of Bolivia, where indigenous nationalist movements dramatically expelled the Peace Corps in 1971. She also shows how Peace Corps development ideology shaped domestic and transnational social protest, including U.S. civil rights, black nationalist, and antiwar movements.

A Life Inspired

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Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book A Life Inspired written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of autobiographical reminiscences written by about 28 former Peace Corps volumteers.

When the World Calls

Author : Stanley Meisler
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807050512
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book When the World Calls written by Stanley Meisler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps’s first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler’s engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers’ unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. In the years since, in spite of setbacks, the ethos of the Peace Corps has endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 Volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex—and valued—institutions.

Americans Do Their Business Abroad

Author : Jake Fawson
Publisher : Other Places Publishing
ISBN 13 : 098226190X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Americans Do Their Business Abroad written by Jake Fawson and published by Other Places Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein reside seventeen stories (and one poem) written by Peace Corps Volunteers from across the generations and across the planet. Such writing often brings expectations for a certain type of book (heartwarming, uplifting, nice). Many books give you that experience. And we like those books. They are good books. The world needs those books. This is not that book. Americans Do Their Business Abroad is a collection of stories a little too goofy, a little too personal (and maybe a little too gross) to belong anywhere else. Latrines. Goat eyeballs. Pickpockets. Whimsy. Wisdom. And arson in the name of hygiene. Enjoy.

Between Inca Walls

Author : Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631527185
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Between Inca Walls written by Evelyn Kohl LaTorre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the migrant workers. During the summer of her junior year in college, Evelyn travels to a small Mexican town to help set up a school and a library—an experience that whets her appetite for a life full of both purpose and adventure. After graduation, Evelyn joins the Peace Corps and is sent to perform community development work in a small mountain town in the Andes of Perú. There, she and her roommate, Marie, search for meaningful projects and adjust to living with few amenities. Over the course of eighteen months, the two young women work in a hospital, start 4-H clubs, attend campesino meetings, and teach PE in a school with dirt floors. Evelyn is chosen queen of the local boys’ high school and—despite her resolve to resist such temptations—falls in love with a university student. As she comes of age, Evelyn learns about life and love the hard way when she must choose between following the religious rules of her youth and giving in to her sexual desires.

Adventures in Service with Peace Corps in Niger

Author : James R. Bullington
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781419679377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Service with Peace Corps in Niger written by James R. Bullington and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the adventures and daily lives of Peace Corps Volunteers and their director serving in remote, exotic Niger, the world's poorest country, in 2000-2006.

At Home in the World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book At Home in the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

River Town

Author : Peter Hessler
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062028987
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book River Town written by Peter Hessler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.

American Taboo

Author : Philip Weiss
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061969923
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book American Taboo written by Philip Weiss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner -- a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed twenty-two times and left for dead inside her hut. Another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned home a free man. Although the story was kept quiet in the United States, Deb Gardner's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga. Now journalist Philip Weiss "shines daylight on the facts of this ugly case with the fervor of an avenging angel" (Chicago Tribune), exposing a gripping tale of love, violence, and clashing ideals. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.

Voices from the Peace Corps

Author : Angene Hopkins Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129753
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Peace Corps written by Angene Hopkins Wilson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.

The Mountain School

Author : Greg Alder
Publisher : Greg Alder
ISBN 13 : 0988682206
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain School written by Greg Alder and published by Greg Alder. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area as the only tribe never to be defeated by European colonizers. Greg Alder arrives in Tsoeneng in 2003 as the village's first foreign resident since 1966. Back then, the Canadian priest who had been living there was robbed and murdered in his quarters. Set up as a Peace Corps teacher at the village's secondary school, Alder finds himself incompetent in so many unexpected ways. How do you keep warm in this place where it snows but there is no electricity? How do you feed yourself where there are no grocery stores let alone restaurants? Tsoeneng is a world apart from his home in America, but Alder persists in adapting. He learns to grow food, he learns to speak the strange local language, and he makes enough friends such that he is eventually invited to participate in initiation rites. Yet even as he seems accepted into the Tsoeneng fold, he sees how much of an outsider he will always remain-and perhaps want to remain. The Mountain School is insightful and candid, at times accepting and at times rebellious. It is the ultimate tale of the transplant.

The Peace Corps and Latin America

Author : Thomas Nisley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498549448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Peace Corps and Latin America written by Thomas Nisley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of the Peace Corps in U.S. foreign policy in Latin America from the 1960s to the present. The Peace Corps is an important tool of U.S. foreign policy that contributes on multiple levels in not only Latin America, but also everywhere the Peace Corps serves.

Service Disrupted

Author : Tyler E. Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692922200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Service Disrupted written by Tyler E. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Years of Peace Corps in Afghanistan

Author : Frances Hopkins Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935925361
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book The Early Years of Peace Corps in Afghanistan written by Frances Hopkins Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Years of Peace Corps in Afghanistan: A Promising Time, by Frances Hopkins Irwin and Will A. Irwin, February 2014 In 1962, nine U.S. Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Kabul. Half a century later, at a critical moment of transition in Afghanistan, this book describes what Peace Corps Volunteers learned during the Cold War about how diversity among peoples can be used to enrich cultures, rather than homogenize or destroy them. Before Peace Corps left Afghanistan in 1979, 1650 volunteers had experienced slices of a rapidly changing Afghanistan. This is the story of the first four years, how, under the guidance of first director Robert L Steiner, the volunteers learned to work within Afghan culture and overcame the initial skepticism of Afghans and the Kabul international community, and how by 1966 Peace Corps had grown from a cautious start with five English teachers, three nurses, and a mechanic all in Kabul to 200 volunteers working in all parts of Afghanistan. Fran and Will Irwin frame the story around conversations with Bob Steiner, who brought his ability to speak Persian and his experience growing up and working as a U.S. cultural affairs officer in Iran to building the Peace Corps program in Afghanistan. They draw on their own experience as volunteers, the recollections of other volunteers and staff members, and materials from personal and public records. The book includes 80 pages of writing by volunteers in Afghanistan for now hard-to-find 1960s publications as well as two dozen photographs and a discussion of sources. "The authors have prepared a book of historic significance for the Peace Corps." Foreword by Saif R. Samady, former Deputy Minister of Education in Afghanistan "What makes this book a must-read-for Afghans, Americans, and others interested in international cooperation-is that it provides an example of an appreciated and cost-effective aid program, one that worked." Nour Rahimi, former Editor of the Kabul Times "A Promising Time is thus an essential work for anyone interested in the history of American/Afghan relations." Carl H. Klaus, Founding Director, University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program