An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life, tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present.

Autorentext
NANCY COOK is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brock University, USA. She is a faculty member of the interdisciplinary graduate programme in Globalization at McMaster University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Points of Arrival and Departure Bazaar Situations Vulnerable and Spatialising Subjects "Free" Travellers and Developers Navigating Boundaries Another One in the Oven Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?