INSIDE THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF DEVELOPMENT WORKERS: THE CHALLENGES AND FUTURES OF AIDLAND

Book ID/图书代码： 07720010B42831

English Summary/英文概要： * Explores the social and cultural worlds shaping aid workers and their development practices * Shows how aid workers in the “field” negotiate a variety of often conflicting and contradictory imperatives of the development system

Much and warranted attention is paid to the lives of aid recipients – their household lives, saving habits, gender relations, etc. It’s held that a key to measuring the effectiveness of aid is contained in such details. Rarely, however, is the lens turned on the lives of aid workers themselves. Yet the seemingly impersonal network of agencies and donors that formulate and implement policy are composed of real people with complex motivations and experiences that might also provide important lessons about development’s failures and successes.

Hindman and Fechter break new ground by illuminating the social and cultural world of the aid agency, a world that is neglected in most discussions of aid policy. They examine how aid workers’ moral beliefs interlink and conflict with their initial motivations, how they relate to aid beneficiaries, their local NGO counterparts, and other aid workers, their views on race and sexuality, the effect of transient lifestyles and insider language, and the security and family issues that come with choosing such a career. Ultimately, they arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of development processes that acknowledges a rich web of relationships at all levels of the system.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书着重探索社会和文化塑造援助工作者和他们的发展实践，展现此领域内的工作者如何就发展体系中的利益冲突和抵触规则进行协商和谈判。

无论是在家庭生活、储蓄习惯还是性别关系等等各方面，工作人员都会给受援者无微不至的关怀，这些细节是衡量援助活动有效性的一个关键要素。但是对于施援人员自己的生活却鲜有关注。然而，制定和实施政策的各机构，使用的那些看似客观的网络依据，其实都是由怀有复杂动机或经历的人们所组成，而且这些依据成为素材加入到了评论发展活动成败的课程中去。

欣德曼和费克特开辟了新的疆域，他们指出了救援机构在救援政策的讨论中经常被忽视的问题。他们研究，援助工作者的道德信仰与最初动机是如何产生了关联，他们是如何权衡和协调与受援者、当地非政府组织、其他援助者、自身对于种族和性别的看法、不稳定的生活方式等等这些问题，而去选择了这样一种职业。最终，他们就发展过程这一问题得出了一个更全面的认识，承认在各级体系中都存在的多重的网络关系。(兼职翻译FSF)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Heather Hindman started her academic career as a scholar of Nepal. Early work on elite ethnic organizations in Kathmandu elided into an interest in the foreign diplomats and aid workers with whom they often socialized. In a forthcoming book, Hindman explicates the social world of expatriates in Nepal as an example of the hidden actors of globalization. In addition, she has published on the influence of U.S. foreign policy on aid priorities, the training of expatriate personnel, the essentialization of culture and the hidden labor of elite transnational women. She frequently presents on her current research on the outsourcing of specialized services and the transformation of risk onto global laborers. In addition, she is active in refugee support, the Transnationalism Project at the University of Chicago and the Graduate Consortium on Women’s Studies.

Anne-Meike Fechter ’s early work focused on Euro-American corporate expatriates in South East Asia. The resulting monograph, entitled Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia (Routledge 2007), analyzes Euro-Americans working in Jakarta within the context of transnationalism and globalisation. More recently, she has begun a research project on aid workers as mobile professionals with particular regard to Cambodia, which follows their careers, life courses and experiences of place while on an overseas posting. She is also editor, with Anne Coles, of the volume Gender and Family among Transnational Professionals (Routledge 2007), and with Katie Walsh, of a recent special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2010) which presents studies in the framework of Post/colonial Encounters: Expatriates in Comparative Perspective.

欣德曼开启了作为尼泊尔学者的学术研究生涯，早期在加德满都的工作使得她对外交官和救援工作者的工作产生了兴趣，本书中阐述了尼泊尔外籍人员的社会世界。特色服务外包和转移至全球劳动力的风险都是她最近研究的对象，另外，她还是难民活动、芝加哥大学跨国项目以及妇女研究联盟的踊跃分子。

安妮早期的作品聚焦于东南亚欧美企业的外籍人士，著有此主题的专论，《跨国生活：印度尼西亚的外籍人士》（Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia）最近开始进行援助工作者的研究。她与安妮.克尔斯共同编辑了《跨国专业人员的性别和家庭》（Gender and Family among Transnational Professionals），并与凯蒂.沃尔什共同编辑了《民族和移民研究期刊》（Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies）。

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