Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1177/0308275X231175973

Ben Eyre

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Abstract

The promotion of smallholder dairy farming in Rungwe District, Tanzania has been enormously successful, with the vast majority of households now in possession of productive dairy cows. This article compares supposedly traditional loans with self-help groups directly established by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that both reveal ‘big’ recipients rather than distributors of resources, and that those carrying out development activities often benefit most from them. Rather than advocating a moral judgement, the article suggests the value of thinking with and against the concept of distributive labour to explain the pragmatics of interdependent relations that are key to doing development. Detachment between beneficiary and donor is essential, and mediates salutary claims that distributive labour is a means to advocate for shared values about the distribution of wealth across the globe.

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关于分配劳动：探索全球化相互依存的语用学

坦桑尼亚Rungwe区小农户奶牛养殖的推广取得了巨大成功，绝大多数家庭现在都拥有高产奶牛。这篇文章将所谓的传统贷款与非政府组织直接成立的自助团体进行了比较，这两个团体都揭示了资源的“大”接受者而非分销商，而且那些开展发展活动的人往往从中受益最多。文章没有提倡道德判断，而是提出了支持和反对分配劳动概念的思考价值，以解释对发展至关重要的相互依存关系的语用学。受益人和捐赠者之间的分离至关重要，并调解了有益的主张，即分配劳动是倡导全球财富分配共同价值观的一种手段。

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期刊介绍： Critique of Anthropology is dedicated to the development of anthropology as a discipline that subjects social reality to critical analysis. It publishes academic articles and other materials which contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the human condition, structures of social power, and the construction of ideologies in both contemporary and past human societies from a cross-cultural and socially critical standpoint. Non-sectarian, and embracing a diversity of theoretical and political viewpoints, COA is also committed to the principle that anthropologists cannot and should not seek to avoid taking positions on political and social questions.