Aid and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural Guatemala
研究了危地马拉农村社区中非政府组织如何通过援助实践重塑女性的主体性，发现其虽宣称替代发展，实则复制新自由主义逻辑，并将援助包装为礼物，要求女性表现出感恩姿态，从而侵入其生活。
Development discourse has focused on gendered dimensions of poverty, demonstrating how parastatal poverty alleviation programmes target women as aid recipients while devaluing their productive and reproductive work. However, seldom analysed is how privatisation of social services and proliferation of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have impacted women. We explore this in a Guatemalan community where we find that although NGOs discursively commit to ‘alternative’ development approaches, on the ground they reproduce elements of a neoliberal subjectivity akin to parastatal programmes. NGOs additionally configure aid disbursement as gift giving, requiring beneficiaries to assume affective postures of gratitude, and facilitating intrusion into women’s lives.