My husband and I are both professors studying development, and we're struggling with whether to take our kids to live in the rural community where we do fieldwork for a year. I think it would be an incredible learning experience, while he worries we'd be imposing on people dealing with real hardship and turning their lives into our family's educational opportunity, and we can't seem to get past our different intuitions about what's ethical.
More people experience this than they realize.
Partners are wrestling with how to navigate the tension between immersive understanding and extractive privilege in their professional and personal lives.
“Where Are You with Development economics — why some countries are poor?”
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