Partnerships as Interpellation. Issue 1 (January 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Partnerships as Interpellation. Issue 1 (January 2017)
- Main Title:
- Partnerships as Interpellation
- Authors:
- Andersen, Sigrid Bjerre
Jensen, Steffen - Abstract:
- Abstract This article explores the consequences of labelling international development relations as partnerships, as has gained prominence over the past decades. It contributes to a growing literature on the ethnography of development by suggesting that 'partner' identity is destabilized and renegotiable rather than stable and predictable. By exploring how partnership works within a system of discursive interpellation we illustrate that donors and recipients are given a new set of possibilities and constraints in the practice of shaping their relation. We exemplify this through ethnographic analyses of the political partnership between Liberia and the European Union, and the partnership between a South African and a Danish NGO. Both illustrate how neither donor nor recipient, as it is otherwise often assumed, can univocally announce a partnership. Rather, representatives of the institutions involved mutually interpellate and constantly negotiate partner identities. Abstract Cet article analyse les conséquences de l'étiquetage des relations de développement international comme « partenariats », ce qui a pris plus d'importance ces dix dernières années. On contribue à la littérature sur l'ethnographie du développement, en suggérant que l'identité du 'partner' n'est pas stable et prévisible, mais plutôt renégociable et instable. On explore comment les partenariats fonctionnent au sein d'un système d'interpellation discursive, et on illustre comment les donneurs et lesAbstract This article explores the consequences of labelling international development relations as partnerships, as has gained prominence over the past decades. It contributes to a growing literature on the ethnography of development by suggesting that 'partner' identity is destabilized and renegotiable rather than stable and predictable. By exploring how partnership works within a system of discursive interpellation we illustrate that donors and recipients are given a new set of possibilities and constraints in the practice of shaping their relation. We exemplify this through ethnographic analyses of the political partnership between Liberia and the European Union, and the partnership between a South African and a Danish NGO. Both illustrate how neither donor nor recipient, as it is otherwise often assumed, can univocally announce a partnership. Rather, representatives of the institutions involved mutually interpellate and constantly negotiate partner identities. Abstract Cet article analyse les conséquences de l'étiquetage des relations de développement international comme « partenariats », ce qui a pris plus d'importance ces dix dernières années. On contribue à la littérature sur l'ethnographie du développement, en suggérant que l'identité du 'partner' n'est pas stable et prévisible, mais plutôt renégociable et instable. On explore comment les partenariats fonctionnent au sein d'un système d'interpellation discursive, et on illustre comment les donneurs et les récipiendaires ont plusieurs possibilités et contraintes dans le processus qui donne forme à leur relation. On exemplifie ce procès à travers l'analyse ethnographique du partenariat entre la Liberia et l'Union Européenne, et le partenariat entre une ONG de l'Afrique du Sud et une ONG Danoise. Ces deux exemples illustrent comme ni le donneur ni le récipiendaire peuvent annoncer un partenariat non équivoquement, au contraire de ce qu'indiquent d'autres approches. Plutôt, c'est les représentatives de les institutions qui renégocient constamment et interpellent mutuellement les identités des deux partenaires. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- European journal of development research. Volume 29:Issue 1(2017)
- Journal:
- European journal of development research
- Issue:
- Volume 29:Issue 1(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 29, Issue 1 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0029-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 93
- Page End:
- 107
- Publication Date:
- 2017-01
- Subjects:
- partnership -- interpellation -- donor–recipient relations -- European Union -- Liberia -- South Africa
Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals
Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals
330.91724 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/archive/index.html ↗
http://www.palgrave.com/home/index.asp ↗
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713635016~db=all ↗
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/browsing/AllIssues/ingenta;jsessionid=3c8i0louk3kt.circus?journal=pubinfobike://fcp/edr ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1057/ejdr.2015.80 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0957-8811
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- Legaldeposit
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