The racialization of expertise and professional non-equivalence in the humanitarian workplace.
The racialization of expertise and professional non-equivalence in the humanitarian workplace.
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10.1186/s41018-021-00112-9
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2022
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Bian J
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Bian J
本文旨在探讨当代人道主义援助领域的专业知识被秘密种族化的方式。尽管对于援助专业人员之间的外籍人士与本地人之间的分歧存在大量讨论，但这种二分法本质上仍然是基于国籍的，这可能是对援助组织内部群体维度的过于简单化的解释。这项研究旨在揭示“外籍人士”和“本地人”的专业分类并不是种族中立的，而是色盲的。当代人道主义援助机构内的组织已经开始诉诸迈克尔·奥米和霍华德·威南特所描述的一种新的种族话语——这种话语不需要明确提及种族就能永久存在，因为种族从属关系已经被重新配置为依赖于人道主义职业日常社会结构中隐含的种族提及。研究表明，在自由主义人道主义空间的当代专业结构下，隐藏着一种隐蔽的权力等级制度，这种等级制度是由种族界线（尤其是白人的肤色）对专业知识和能力的看法所推动的。
This paper aims to explore the ways which expertise is covertly racialized in the contemporary humanitarian aid sector. While there are considerable discussions on the expat-local divide among aid professionals, such dichotomization is still inherently nationality-based, which may be an over-simplified explanation of the group dimensions within aid organizations. This study seeks to uncover that professional categorizations of “expatriate” and “local” are not race-neutral and, instead, colorblind. Organizations within the contemporary humanitarian aid apparatus have come to appeal to what Michael Omi and Howard Winant would characterize as a new racial discourse—one that does not require explicit references to race in order to be perpetuated, as racial subordination has been reconfigured to rely on implicit references to race woven within the everyday social fabrics of the humanitarian profession. The research suggests that embedded under the contemporary professional structure of the liberal humanitarian space is a covert power hierarchy fueled by perceptions of expertise and competency along racial lines—particularly around one’s whiteness.