The gift of disaster: the commodification of good intentions in post-tsunami Sri Lanka.
The gift of disaster: the commodification of good intentions in post-tsunami Sri Lanka.
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灾难的礼物：海啸后斯里兰卡的善意商品化。
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2010
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B. Klem
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B. Korf;Shahul Habullah;P. Hollenbach;B. Klem
本文分析了斯里兰卡海啸后援助的商品化，这一过程“污染”的“纯洁性”的良好意愿与赞助和国际援助的政治。它认为礼物不仅仅是“援助”的物质转移，也是文化象征、社会权力和政治关系的体现。海啸礼物加强和重新配置了斯里兰卡社区不同赞助人和客户之间的交换关系，使独立后几年中引发社会冲突和不满的政治经济永久化。除了占主导地位的民族或政党赞助的理由，该文件发现，不诚实的赞助人的礼物不仅成为世袭的，但世袭的理由出现了从上到下一样多-一个动态，成为几乎不可避免的和自我强化。通过三个案例研究，我们探讨了复杂的关系链，义务和期望有关的共同发展，但往往是矛盾的，礼物的理由，渗透到海啸援助的做法，性能和话语。
This paper analyses the commodification of post-tsunami aid in Sri Lanka, a process that 'contaminated' the 'purity' of good intentions with the politics of patronage and international aid. It argues that gifts are not just material transfers of 'aid', but also embodiments of cultural symbolism, social power, and political affiliations. The tsunami gift re-enforced and reconfigured exchange relationships among different patrons and clients in Sri Lankan communities, perpetuating the political economy that has driven social conflict and discontent in the post-independence years. Beyond dominant rationales of ethnic or political party patronage, the paper finds that gifts by disingenuous patrons not only became patrimonial, but that the patrimonial rationale emerged as much from above as from below--a dynamic that became nearly inescapable and self-reinforcing. Through three case studies, we explore the intricate chain of relations, obligations, and expectations pertinent in the co-evolving, but often contradictory, gift rationales that permeate the practices, performances, and discourses of tsunami aid.