Abstract

This paper introduces new analytical concepts to reveal overlooked dimensions of power inequalities between elite development agents (EDAs), local development agents and the targets of aid. Affective privilege captures the positioning of EDAs within affective patterning that sustains their dominant position. They enjoy a greater capacity to affect others in ways that reproduce structural power. Affective resilience captures their reduced capacity to be affected in ways that challenge their prior understandings, including understanding of self and their relations with others. Both affective privilege and affective resilience act as barriers to mutual understandings, limit reflexivity and, crucially, sustain hierarchies that are intimately felt by the power-deficient, but that pass unnoticed and therefore unaddressed by EDAs. I propose vulnerability as an ethical practice by the powerful as a means to both be attentive to these hierarchies, and to meaningfully transform relationships in development.

摘要

本文介绍了新的分析概念，以揭示精英发展代理人 (EDA)、地方发展代理人和援助目标之间被忽视的权力不平等维度。情感特权捕获了 EDA 在维持其主导地位的情感模式中的定位。他们有更大的能力以复制结构力量的方式影响他人。情感复原力反映了他们以挑战他们先前理解的方式受到影响的能力下降，包括对自我及其与他人关系的理解。情感特权和情感恢复力都成为相互理解的障碍，限制了反思性，并且至关重要的是，维持了权力不足者密切感受到的等级制度，但这种等级制度没有引起人们的注意，因此没有被 EDA 解决。