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Intimate Colonialism offers a candid ethnographic narrative by Laurie Charles, who completed her Ph.D. before serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa. Tasked with creating programs to keep adolescent girls in school, Charles navigates the complex politics and cultural barriers that obstruct educational opportunity. Her memoir weaves together professional development work with personal experiences-love, sexual fulfilment, harassment, and gender discrimination-revealing how intimate relationships became inseparable from her mission. Published by Routledge as part of the Writing Lives series, this unflinching account examines the emotional and physical realities of development work, challenging conventional narratives about Western intervention in Africa. Charles explores how personal transformation and professional goals become entangled, offering readers a rare, honest perspective on cross-cultural work and the human dimensions often omitted from development discourse.

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Intimate Colonialism is an ethnographic narrative from Routledge's Writing Lives series that combines personal memoir with professional development analysis.

The book documents Laurie Charles' experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer designing educational programs for adolescent girls in West Africa.

Charles examines how political, cultural, and gender barriers affect educational access whilst exploring her own emotional and intimate experiences.

This ethnographic work integrates themes of love, sexual experience, harassment, and discrimination to reveal the complexities of development work beyond official narratives.

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Release Date
15 May 2007
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13 February 2007

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