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BURDEN OR BENEFIT? PHILANTHROPIC AND NONPROFIT STUDIES Dwight F.Burlingame and David C.Hammack,editors BURDEN OR BENEFIT? IMPERIAL BENEVOLENCE AND ITS LEGACIES Edited by Helen Gilbert and Chris Tiffin INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis Thisbookisapublicationof IndianaUniversityPress 601NorthMortonStreet Bloomington,Indiana47404-3797USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephoneorders 800-842-6796 Faxorders 812-855-7931 Ordersbye-mail [email protected] ©2008byIndianaUniversityPress Allrightsreserved Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedorutilizedinanyformorby anymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopyingand recording,orbyanyinformationstorageandretrievalsystem,with- outpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher.TheAssociationof AmericanUniversityPresses’ResolutiononPermissionsconstitutes theonlyexceptiontothisprohibition. Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirements ofAmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciences—Perma- nenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSIZ39.48-1984. ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Burdenorbenefit?:imperialbenevolenceanditslegacies/editedby HelenGilbertandChrisTiffin. p.cm.— (Philanthropicandnonprofitstudies) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-0-253-35077-0(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN-13:978-0-253-21960-2(pbk.:alk.paper) 1. Benevo- lence—GreatBritain—Colonies—History.2. Socialethics—Great Britain—Colonies—History. I.Gilbert,Helen,dateII.Tiffin,Chris. BJ1474.B872008 177’.7—dc22 2007035719 1 2 3 4 5 13 12 11 09 08 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii 1.Introduction:What’sWrongwithBenevolence? Chris Tiffin and Helen Gilbert 1 2.AShortHistoryof(Imperial)Benevolence Patrick Brantlinger 13 Part 1.Colonial Burdens? 3.ThomasFowellBuxtonandtheNetworks ofBritishHumanitarianism Alan Lester 31 4.SettlerColonialism,Utility,Romance: E.G.Wakefield’sLetterfromSydney Lisa O’Connell 49 5.Benevolence,Slavery,andthePeriodicals Chris Tiffin 61 6.“ThisNineteenthCenturyofProgressandHumanity”: TheLifeandTimesofFrederickWeld(1823–1891) Leigh Dale 72 7.Women,Philanthropy,andImperialismin EarlyNineteenth-CenturyBritain Sarah Richardson 90 8.Blixen’sAfrica:WonderlandoftheSelf Kirsten Holst Petersen 103 Part 2.Contemporary Benefits? 9.FromBenevolencetoPartnership:ThePersistence ofColonialLegaciesinAotearoa–NewZealand Chris Prentice 119 CONTENTS 10.RefusingBenevolence:Gandhi,Nehru, andtheEthicsofPostcolonialRelations Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 136 11.RescuingAfricanWomenandGirlsfrom FemaleGenitalPractices:ABenevolent andCivilizingMission Wairimu˜ Ngaru˜iya Njambi 160 12.BenevolenceandHumiliation:ThinkingMigrants, Integration,andSecurityinEurope Prem Kumar Rajaram 180 13.Hearts,Minds,andWetlands:Stakeholders andEcologicalRestorationfromtheEverglades totheMesopotamianMarshlands William E.O’Brien 198 LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS 215 INDEX 221 i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS WewouldliketoacknowledgetheUniversityofQueenslandforseedfunding oftheprojectunderitsSmallGrantsscheme,andthemembersoftheQueens- landPostcolonialGroupforwide-rangingandproductivediscussioninthede- velopmentofseveralofthepapers.AmandaLynchprovidedresearchassistance totheprojectwithcustomaryenergy,accuracyandimaginationandCarolA. Kennedyscrutinisedthemanuscriptwithsympatheticyetforensicthorough- ness.Theeditorswouldalsoliketothankthecontributorsfortheirgenerousre- sponsestorequestsforclarificationorsupplementationoftheirargumentsand fortheirpatienceasthebookadvancedtopublication. ii BURDEN OR BENEFIT? i