取消援助:英国对马拉维援助的削减、发展关系和未来的资源配置

IF 3 2区 社会学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Development and Change Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI:10.1111/dech.12810
Alyssa Morley, Rachel Silver
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英国政府决定在 2020 年将其官方发展援助减少 46 亿英镑,这一决定的支持者将其归结为民族主义对国内金融危机的回应。这项由保守党主导的紧缩措施导致全球数百个援助项目提前关闭。担忧的英国政界人士将削减资金等同于道德失范,而人道主义和民间社会行动者则声称,失去资金将使世界上最脆弱的人群遭受重创。在英国资助者和所谓的援助 "受益者 "之间的广阔空间里,有一群不同的中层参与者在 "执行 "发展计划,或在这种情况下 "不执行 "发展计划。本文探讨了他们在马拉维这一后殖民地环境中提前结束英国资助项目的经历。文章通过半结构式访谈,探讨了紧缩政策在情感、物质和关系方面造成的后果。文章以迪迪埃-法辛(Didier Fassin)的道德经济理论为基础,认为撤资的时机和方式违反了公认的援助道德经济,违背了马拉维中层援助人员与社区成员(包括家人)之间以及机构之间的义务。最后,本报告探讨了援助关系基础设施的这一特殊断裂是如何促使马拉维要求重新调整未来资源配置的。
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Undoing Aid: UK Aid Cuts, Development Relationships and Resourcing Futures in Malawi
The decision of the United Kingdom government to reduce its Official Development Assistance by £ 4.6 billion in 2020 was framed by its proponents as a nationalist response to a domestic financial crisis. This Conservative‐led austerity measure triggered the early closure of hundreds of aid projects globally. Concerned British politicians equated the cuts to moral failures as humanitarian and civil society actors claimed the lost funding would devastate the world's most vulnerable populations. In the vast space between British funders and the so‐called ‘beneficiaries’ of aid is a diverse cadre of mid‐level actors ‘doing’ and, in this case, ‘un‐doing’ development programming. This article examines their experiences in prematurely closing British‐funded projects in one postcolonial context, Malawi. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article explores the emotional, material and relational consequences of austerity. It builds on Didier Fassin's theorization of moral economies to argue that the timing and approach of this funding withdrawal violated the accepted moral economies of aid, breaching obligations between Malawian mid‐level aid workers and community members (including family) as well as among institutions. It concludes by considering how this particular rupture to the relational infrastructure of aid has prompted demands for recalibrated resourcing futures in Malawi.
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Development and Change
Development and Change DEVELOPMENT STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: Development and Change is essential reading for anyone interested in development studies and social change. It publishes articles from a wide range of authors, both well-established specialists and young scholars, and is an important resource for: - social science faculties and research institutions - international development agencies and NGOs - graduate teachers and researchers - all those with a serious interest in the dynamics of development, from reflective activists to analytical practitioners
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