ABSTRACT:This article proposes that intimacy can be a useful analytical tool to understand how the private and the public, the personal and the political, intersect in development aid projects. Recent anthropological analyses have attended to the personal and moral worlds of aid workers, examining the knowledge practices and ethical dilemmas of "aidland." Some scholars have cautioned that this perspective should not overlook the politics of development interventions. The lens of intimacy can be a fruitful avenue for understanding how "aidland" is always already political—how the personal worlds of aid workers and politics are intertwined. Examining the kinds of relations that define intimacy, and the specific ways that the private and the public intersect in these relations, can show us the particular history and politics of a development regime. Drawing on the case of a Japanese NGO in Myanmar, the article shows how "intimacy" in this inter-Asian form of development aid appeared in terms of "becoming one" (hitotsu ni naru). Ethnographic analysis and historical contextualization reveal nationalist-culturalist and Pan-Asian imaginations that are entangled in intimate experiences of "becoming one" among Japanese and Burmese aid actors. Ultimately, the analytical purchase of "intimacy" lies in calling our attention to how people negotiate similarities, differences, and conflicts in "private" spaces in order to make the ethos of becoming one in "public" possible.

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超越爱的亲密：亚洲发展援助的历史和政治

摘要：本文提出，亲密关系可以成为一种有用的分析工具，以了解私人与公共、个人与政治如何在发展援助项目中相交。最近的人类学分析关注援助工作者的个人和道德世界，检查“援助地”的知识实践和道德困境。一些学者警告说，这种观点不应忽视发展干预的政治。亲密关系的镜头可以成为理解“援助地”如何始终具有政治性——援助工作者和政治的个人世界如何交织在一起的富有成效的途径。检查定义亲密关系的类型，以及私人和公共在这些关系中交叉的具体方式，可以向我们展示一个发展体制的特殊历史和政治。文章以日本非政府组织在缅甸的案例为例，展示了这种亚洲间发展援助形式中的“亲密”是如何以“成为一体”（hitotsu ni naru）的形式出现的。民族志分析和历史语境化揭示了民族主义文化主义和泛亚想象，这些想象纠缠在日本和缅甸援助行动者“成为一体”的亲密体验中。归根结底，对“亲密”的分析性购买在于唤起我们注意人们如何在“私人”空间中协商相似、差异和冲突，以使在“公共”中成为一体的精神成为可能。民族志分析和历史语境化揭示了民族主义文化主义和泛亚想象，这些想象纠缠在日本和缅甸援助行动者“成为一体”的亲密体验中。归根结底，对“亲密”的分析性购买在于唤起我们注意人们如何在“私人”空间中协商相似、差异和冲突，以使在“公共”中成为一体的精神成为可能。民族志分析和历史语境化揭示了民族主义文化主义和泛亚想象，这些想象纠缠在日本和缅甸援助行动者“成为一体”的亲密体验中。归根结底，对“亲密”的分析性购买在于唤起我们注意人们如何在“私人”空间中协商相似、差异和冲突，以使在“公共”中成为一体的精神成为可能。