Reports and Narratives from Stays Abroad Critiqued for Racism. Completely revised edition of the brochure, 2013
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“With Colonial Greetings … Reports and Stories from Stays Abroad Examined Through a Critical Lens on Racism”
About the New Edition: In this revised edition, the topics of gender relations and capitalism are explored in greater depth, and overall, more attention is given to various power relations and how they interact. A new chapter has been added to the brochure that illustrates the complexity of traveling to the Global South from a perspective of Color. In addition, the brochure now features a more legible font and is available online as an accessible document.
About this content: When we travel to the Global South—or even spend an extended period of time there—we have so many experiences and want to share them with our friends and family back home, letting them in on our adventures, experiences, and impressions. Whether we’re traveling as tourists—for example, as backpackers—or working there, doing volunteer work, or completing an internship, we take photos and share updates via email, social media, newsletters, or our own blogs—we share how we’re doing, what moves us, surprises us, makes us happy, or frustrates us. Once we’re back home, the storytelling and sharing of photos usually really get going. This completely revised brochure offers a starting point for people who want to reflect on the extent to which their perceptions and accounts of the Global South are entangled in racist and colonial structures. It introduces key topics such as colonialism and racism and addresses questions of one’s own social positioning. It highlights the power of language and images and identifies some of the narrative patterns that frequently appear in reports. Guiding questions and suggestions enable readers to critically examine their own ideas, ways of speaking, and images and, based on this, to develop alternative courses of action.
The brochure is available for download here as a PDF. Printed copies can be ordered from us here. An invoice will be included with your order.
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About the creation of the brochure
As glokal e.V. we have been working for several years in (development) political education, also in the preparation and follow-up as well as accompaniment of young people who do a voluntary service, a youth exchange or a student exchange in countries of the global south. Through our work, we have noticed time and again that many of the reports, blogs, and images do not match, and in fact contradict, the content of the educational support and the goals of the organizations and support programs. While, for example, the topics of prejudice and racism are often a concern for trainers at accompanying seminars, people and countries of the global south are predominantly portrayed stereotypically and racist in the reports – whether consciously or unconsciously. All of this is, of course, part of how the global South is generally represented in and by the global North, e.g. in textbooks or in the media. Our own experiences as travelers, reports from friends and acquaintances, and the knowledge that participants of volunteer services in the global south often spend a large part of their free time communicating with friends and family and reporting on their experiences led us to dedicate ourselves to this topic.
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With colonial regards … Reports and narratives from stays abroad through the lens of anti-racist critique (publication available only in German)
When we travel to the Global South or stay there for extended periods of time, we have many experiences and gather a wealth of new impressions, which we often want to share with our friends and family back home. Whether we’re backpacking, working, volunteering, or doing an internship—we take photos and write emails, letters, and postcards, or share on social media and blogs the things that move and surprise us, make us happy, or irritate us. Upon returning home, we often begin by showing photos and telling stories.
This booklet aims to provide a starting point for reflecting on—and perhaps understanding—how our perceptions and accounts of the Global South are intertwined with colonial and racist structures. It familiarizes readers with key issues such as power relations within the global context, colonialism, and racism, as well as the influence of images and language. Furthermore, it analyzes some of the narrative patterns that commonly emerge in accounts of stays abroad. Questions and suggestions allow readers to take a self-critical look at their own perceptions, ways of speaking, and photography, and help them develop alternative courses of action.
The booklet can be downloaded free of charge as a PDF [here]. Printed copies can be ordered by writing to broschuere[at]glokal[dot].org
Handling fee: €3.00 per item; for orders of 50 or more, €2.50 per item, plus shipping. The symbolic price of €5.00 per item supports the work of glokal.
About the editors
, glokal e.V. is a Berlin-based association that works in the field of development education. We view current North-South relations as fundamentally rooted in their colonial past and as
pervaded by asymmetrical and racist power relations. We therefore adopt a postcolonial perspective and critically examine all fo