Social Funds, poverty management and subjectification: beyond the World Bank approach
从马克思主义视角重新审视世界银行的社会基金话语，揭示其如何通过贫困管理深化资本主义逻辑，并分析阶级过程与需求过程的相互构成关系，以及管理方法背后的主体化控制机制。
Revisiting, from a Marxist perspective, the World Bank's discourse on Social Funds, we highlight three findings. One, Social Funds gets deployed in the context of a larger Third Worldist discourse of poverty management, which in turn helps deepen the logic of capitalist development. Two, generating a class-focused understanding of Social Funds (via the concept of social surplus), we argue that class processes and need processes constitute one another and through this conduit emerges a relation between global capital and the poverty alleviation programme of Social Funds. Lastly, interrogating the management approach underlying Social Funds leads us to question claims of decentralisation and participation. Our analysis exposes an underlying process of subjectification by way of a control mechanism exercised through the code of conduct encapsulated in that managerial approach. Copyright , Oxford University Press.