International aid and development: hearing multilingualism, learning from intercultural encounters in the history of OxfamGB
International aid and development: hearing multilingualism, learning from intercultural encounters in the history of OxfamGB
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DOI：
10.1080/14708477.2017.1368207
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发表时间：
2017-08
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Hilary Footitt
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作者：
Hilary Footitt
本文探讨了国际援助与发展领域的跨文化关系。通过详细阅读英国大型跨国非政府组织乐施会（OxfamGB） 60年的历史档案，本文审视了该组织的活动，试图重新构想援助和发展的“接触区域”是多语言和跨文化的。在此过程中，它对跨国机构内的跨文化关系提供了一个基于经验的解释，并寻求对构建这些跨文化领域的政治-社会权力动态提供额外的理解，并有助于当前对西方捐助者在发展中的“向上问责制”的批评，其重点是契约，标准和可量化。
ABSTRACT This article explores the context of intercultural relations in the field of international aid and development. Examining the activities of a large UK-based transnational NGO (OxfamGB) through a detailed reading of its own 60-year-long archived story, the article seeks to reimagine the ‘contact zones’ of aid and development as multilingual and intercultural. In doing so, it offers an empirically grounded account of intercultural relations within a transnational institution, and seeks both to provide additional understandings of the politico-social power dynamics which frame such intercultural fields, and to contribute to current critiques of Western donor ‘upward accountability’ in development with its focus on the contractual, the standard and the quantifiable.