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Aid and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural Guatemala

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  • J. Moore
  • M. F. Webb
  • A. Chary
  • A. Kraemer Díaz
  • Peter Rohloff

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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.

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  • J. Moore & M. F. Webb & A. Chary & A. Kraemer Díaz & Peter Rohloff, 2017. "Aid and Gendered Subjectivity in Rural Guatemala," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(12), pages 2164-2178, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:53:y:2017:i:12:p:2164-2178
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1274397
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    1. World Bank, 2013. "Towards Better Expenditure Quality : Guatemala Public Expenditure Review [Hacia una mejor calidad del gasto : revisión del gasto público en Guatemala]," World Bank Publications - Reports 16085, The World Bank Group.
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    1. Roche, Stephanie & Brockington, Morgan & Fathima, Sana & Nandi, Meghna & Silverberg, Benjamin & Rice, Henry E. & Hall-Clifford, Rachel, 2018. "Freedom of choice, expressions of gratitude: Patient experiences of short-term surgical missions in Guatemala," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 208(C), pages 117-125.

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