{"id":28004,"date":"2026-02-23T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?p=28004"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:53:29","slug":"spotlight-on-research-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/2026\/spotlight-on-research-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has published a new book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Spotlight on Research: Professor Jody Mason has published a new book\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

While books are often cast as axiomatically good, Professor Jody Mason\u2019s new book Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, <\/em>argues that this idea can be troubled by revisiting the history of development.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books for Development<\/a>, <\/em>published this month by McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, considers how state and non-state actors used books within the late twentieth-century development paradigm between 1945 and the end of the 1970s or so. Doing so allows her to track the ways the book, which came to function as a key representative of settler exceptionalism, was used within the context of the development paradigm to express solidarity with newly decolonized nations; to argue for the importance of Canadian leadership in the new international order; and to consolidate settler liberal rule at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While books are often cast as axiomatically good, Professor Jody Mason\u2019s new book Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, argues that this idea can be troubled by revisiting the history of development.\u00a0 Books for Development, published this month by McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, considers how state and non-state actors used books within the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":26090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[144,33,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-publications","category-news","category-sor"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28004"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28016,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28004\/revisions\/28016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}