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The racialization of development expertise and the fluidity of blackness: a case from 1980s Thailand
Asian Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-02-10 , DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2020.1713288
Amare Tegbaru 1
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Abstract This paper is an ethnographer’s reconstruction of his experience in Thailand with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the flux of opposing biases he was subject to as a black African on one hand and a farang development expert on the other. The paper discusses how racial thinking affected dynamics in the UN office and in the field, and how and why those dynamics played out differently over the course of the project. It describes racial hierarchies and meanings situated in this particular country and era as a contribution to an unfinished anthropological inquiry: how blackness and whiteness are intimately woven into the everyday practices of development bureaucracies.

中文翻译:

发展专业知识的种族化和黑人的流动性:1980 年代泰国的案例

摘要 本文是民族志学者对他在 1980 年代和 1990 年代初期在联合国粮食及农业组织的泰国经历的重建,以及他一方面作为非洲黑人和法朗发展专家所遭受的反对偏见的变化。另一个。该论文讨论了种族思维如何影响联合国办公室和实地的动态,以及这些动态在项目过程中如何以及为何以不同的方式发挥作用。它将位于这个特定国家和时代的种族等级和意义描述为对未完成的人类学调查的贡献:黑人和白人如何密切地融入发展官僚机构的日常实践中。
更新日期:2020-02-10
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