Development volunteering programs and the cultural history of foreign aid

该项目计划通过研究澳大利亚、英国和美国在20世纪50年代和60年代的发展志愿计划来考察对外援助的文化史。通过研究吸引公众注意对外援助政策的项目，它试图确定关于发展和第三世界的主流思想是如何发展起来的，并追踪公众舆论对对外援助制度的政治影响。预计这个项目将扩大国际事务文化史方面的新兴学术研究，并扩大我们对澳大利亚对亚洲的看法的了解。

This project plans to examine the cultural history of foreign aid through the study of development volunteering programs in Australia, Britain and the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. By examining programs that attracted the public's attention to foreign aid policy, it seeks to ascertain how mainstream ideas about development and the Third World developed and to trace the political impact of popular opinion on the foreign aid system. It is anticipated that this project will extend emerging scholarship on the cultural history of international affairs and expand our understanding of Australian perceptions of Asia.