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The Listening Zones of NGOs: languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

非政府组织的聆听区：发展计划中的语言和文化知识

基本信息

批准号：
AH/M006808/1
负责人：
Hillary Footitt
金额：
$ 38.93万
依托单位：
University of Reading
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM006808%2F1
关键词：
Listening Zones NGOs languages cultural

项目摘要

In development programmes, NGOs traditionally position themselves as listening attentively to the voices of the beneficiaries and local communities with whom they work. Despite the fact that this relationship is normally presented by NGOs as a meeting in which local communities speak, and NGOs hear, the role of foreign languages in these encounters passes largely unnoticed. In International Relations and Development Studies there has been little interest in the inevitable 'foreign' dimension of these NGO/local meetings, and in the role which foreign languages and cultural knowledge may play within them. Whilst the language challenges of working with humanitarian NGOs have begun to engage the attention of language/translation scholars, the world of development programmes is one in which foreign language-related research is still largely absent. This lack of systematic study of foreign languages in development work has encouraged us to focus on the ways in which NGOs listen to their beneficiaries, and the language policies and practices that they adopt.'The Listening Zones of NGOs' brings together specialists from two universities in an innovative association with a key body in NGO practitioner research and development in the UK, the International NGO Training and Research Centre, INTRAC, Oxford. With its record of over twenty years working with some two hundred NGOs, INTRAC offers the project unrivalled access to the NGO development sector. The lead investigators have an academic background in language policy and practice in conflict zones, and in NGO accountability and global governance, and their universities, Reading and Portsmouth, provide a supportive interdisciplinary environment for this research with specialists in Diversity, Rights and Representation, Literacy and Multilingualism, and Development and Security. The project, focusing on four large and well-established UK-based NGOs, will examine their language policies and practices over time in three contrasting case studies- Malawi, Peru and Kyrgyzstan- chosen to reflect different language landscapes for NGO activity (particularly defined by the status of the English language), different historical periods of sustained intervention, and operational ease of access through INTRAC's current links. The project will use a range of different resources: the archives of NGOs and government/institutional donors; current NGO and Department for International Development (DFID) online documentation; semi-structured interviews with NGO international staff, in-country staff, staff of partner organisations, local communities, language intermediaries, and Foreign Office/DFID officials; and a session of ethnographic observation in each case study area involving a regular in-country audit meeting. We believe that this project will enable us to develop a framework for analysing the role of foreign languages in NGO development work which could be used in the future as the basis for a larger comparative international study of NGO development programmes. 'The Listening Zones of NGOs' aims to ensure that the relevance of foreign languages in development enters into the public arena in a way which is backed up by robust academic research which will inform public debate and stimulate the future thinking of all those concerned, in particular development NGOs, government/institutional funders, and professional translators/interpreters. Through the Advisory Board, the extensive network of INTRAC NGO contacts, and dedicated workshops, seminar and conference, the project seeks to involve these groups in the on-going research, share results with them, provide tailored and practical advice to influence future policy and practice, and lay the foundation for follow-up academic research on the role of foreign languages and cultural knowledge in the global world of international development.

在发展方案中，非政府组织传统上将自己定位为认真倾听与它们合作的受益者和当地社区的声音。尽管非政府组织通常将这种关系描述为当地社区发言、非政府组织倾听的会议，但外语在这些会议中的作用在很大程度上被忽视了。在国际关系和发展研究中，对这些非政府组织/地方会议不可避免的“外国”维度，以及外国语言和文化知识在其中可能发挥的作用几乎没有兴趣。虽然与人道主义非政府组织合作的语言挑战已经开始引起语言/翻译学者的注意，但在发展项目的世界里，与外语相关的研究仍然在很大程度上缺失。在发展工作中缺乏对外语的系统研究，这促使我们关注非政府组织倾听受益者的方式，以及他们采取的语言政策和做法。“非政府组织的倾听区”汇集了来自两所大学的专家，与英国非政府组织从业者研究和发展的关键机构——牛津国际非政府组织培训和研究中心——建立了一个创新的协会。凭借20多年来与大约200个非政府组织合作的记录，intrc为该项目提供了进入非政府组织发展部门的无与伦比的机会。首席调查人员在冲突地区的语言政策和实践、非政府组织问责制和全球治理方面拥有学术背景，他们所在的雷丁大学和朴茨茅斯大学为这项研究提供了一个支持性的跨学科环境，其中有多样性、权利和代表性、扫盲和多语言以及发展和安全方面的专家。该项目聚焦于四家英国大型、成熟的非政府组织，将通过马拉维、秘鲁和吉尔吉斯斯坦三个对比鲜明的案例研究来考察它们的语言政策和实践，这些案例的选择反映了非政府组织活动的不同语言环境（尤其是由英语的地位决定的）、不同的持续干预历史时期，以及通过INTRAC当前的联系进行操作的便利性。该项目将使用一系列不同的资源：非政府组织和政府/机构捐助者的档案；目前非政府组织和国际发展部（DFID）的在线文件；与非政府组织国际工作人员、国内工作人员、合作组织工作人员、当地社区、语言中介机构和外交部/国际发展部官员进行半结构化访谈；在每个案例研究区域进行一次人种学观察，包括定期的国内审计会议。我们相信，这个项目将使我们能够建立一个框架来分析外语在非政府组织发展工作中的作用，这可以在未来作为对非政府组织发展项目进行更大规模的国际比较研究的基础。“非政府组织的倾听区”旨在确保外语在发展中的相关性以一种强有力的学术研究为后盾的方式进入公共领域，这些研究将为公众辩论提供信息，并激发所有相关人员，特别是发展非政府组织，政府/机构资助者和专业翻译/口译人员的未来思考。通过咨询委员会、国际中心非政府组织广泛的联系网络以及专门的讲习班、研讨会和会议，该项目力求使这些团体参与正在进行的研究，与它们分享成果，提供有针对性的实用咨询意见，以影响未来的政策和做法，并为后续关于外语和文化知识在全球国际发展领域中的作用的学术研究奠定基础。