在将军谷

IF 1.3 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
R. Wyrod
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摘要

进入千禧年以来,非洲的发展格局发生了巨大变化。中国大幅扩大了对该地区的对外援助和投资,使西方不再是非洲的主要发展伙伴。然而,中非学术研究基本上缺少的是关注中国在非洲的新存在如何嵌入和改变日常社会关系。本文以乌干达的一个农村为背景,考察了这些问题。乌干达正处于向中国投资的工业园区大规模转型的过程中。它揭示了中国发展援助复杂的新政治与现有的基于政治、阶级、民族和种族的社会不平等交织在一起,并经常加剧这种不平等。从概念上讲,这些动态表明我们需要重新思考如何将发展定义为一个跨国的社会实践领域。中国在全球发展领域不仅仅是一个局外人,相反,应该被视为追求自己的发展形式,我称之为“发展实用主义”。正如这个案例所说明的那样,这种发展实用主义往往会在中国以商业为中心的发展方式和更专制的政府的优先事项之间产生协同作用,这种协同作用需要更多的批判性关注。
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In the General's Valley
Since the turn of the millennium, the landscape of development in Africa has undergone a dramatic shift. China has significantly expanded its foreign aid and investment in the region, decentering the West as Africa's main development partner. What is largely missing from China-Africa scholarship, however, is attention to how the new Chinese presence in Africa is both embedded in and altering everyday social relations. This article examines these issues in a rural setting in Uganda that is in the midst of a large-scale transformation into a China-funded industrial park. It reveals that the complex new politics of Chinese development assistance are intertwined with, and often exacerbate, existing social inequalities based in politics, class, ethnicity, and race. More conceptually, these dynamics demonstrate the need to rethink how we frame development as a transnational field of social practice. China is more than an outlier within the global field of development and instead should be viewed as pursuing its own form of development, what I call “developmental pragmatism.” As this case study illustrates, this developmental pragmatism often turns on synergies between the business-focused development approach of the Chinese and the priorities of more authoritarian governments—synergies that require much greater critical attention.
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Sociology of Development
Sociology of Development Social Sciences-Development
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