{"630448":{"#nid":"630448","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Colonialism or Philanthropy? Blurred Lines in King Leopold\u2019s Congo","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKirk Bowman\u003C\/strong\u003E, Jon R. Wilcox Professor of Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, wrote about\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rztCfp\u0022\u003EKing Leopold\u0026rsquo;s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eby\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EAdam Hochschild\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E(\u003C\/em\u003EHoughton Mifflin 1998) for Global Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Congo experience provides numerous lessons for our time...\u0026nbsp;I read\u0026nbsp;Leopold\u0026rsquo;s Ghost\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eat the same time that\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;J.K. Rowling\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Elaunched a three-year campaign to stop orphanage tourism.\u0026nbsp;There is an oversupply of orphanage tourists and a shortage of orphans.\u0026nbsp;Children are being sold or stolen into orphanages to sate the pressure from orphanage volunteers.\u0026nbsp;While their intentions are far more noble than the Congo\u0026rsquo;s ruthless ruler, Hoschild\u0026rsquo;s brilliant book reminds us all that global philanthropy can sometimes be far different from what it appears.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/books-2019-colonialism-or-philanthropy-blurred-lines-in-king-leopolds-congo\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-01-02 19:40:44","changed_gmt":"2020-01-02 19:40:44","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"EXPO 2020","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.globalatlanta.com\/books-2019-colonialism-or-philanthropy-blurred-lines-in-king-leopolds-congo\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"585955":{"id":"585955","type":"image","title":"Kirk Bowman","body":null,"created":"1484249658","gmt_created":"2017-01-12 19:34:18","changed":"1484249658","gmt_changed":"2017-01-12 19:34:18","alt":"Kirk Bowman","file":{"fid":"223338","name":"KirkBowmanWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KirkBowmanWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KirkBowmanWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36256,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KirkBowmanWeb.jpg?itok=M-XoqqXh"}}},"media_ids":["585955"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1747","name":"Kirk Bowman"},{"id":"183393","name":"Leopold\u0027s Ghost"},{"id":"10536","name":"Nunn School"},{"id":"1188","name":"International Affairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}