Having People, Having Heart

Scherz, China

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“…Mario Schmidt (2020) engages with unexpected problems experienced by GiveDirectly when making supposedly 'unconditional' cash payments in Western Kenya that are rejected by almost 50% of intended beneficiaries. China Scherz (2014) attends to the distributive labour of would-be beneficiaries of different NGOs in contemporary Uganda. Scherz compares and contrasts the different moral logics of two organisations.…”

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Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence

Eyre

2023

Critique of Anthropology

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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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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence

Eyre

2023

Critique of Anthropology

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“…This is not simply a metaphor. In marked contrast to ideologies where accumulation is imagined to occur through invisible market forces and individual prowess, scholars have pointed out the historical and contemporary importance of dependency and clientship for moving forward in Buganda as a thoroughly hierarchical and centralized polity (Hanson 2003;Scherz 2014). Formerly, for instance, the way to maturity, prosperity and success for a young man started with a banana (matooke) garden (Wrigley 1959: 7).…”

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“…Bundling in this and many other cases points to the importance of collectivity for processes of social and material accumulation: other people are integral to achieving growth. An ideal in Buganda and elsewhere in Uganda is to grow to become a patron who supports other kin or clan members to build themselves: this is how one can earn respect and accrue wealth (Wrigley 1964: 20-2;Whyte and Whyte 1998: 243;Hanson 2003;Scherz 2014).…”

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On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda

Calkins

Zoanni

2023

Africa

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In central Uganda, even a casual observer would notice the widespread presentation of often identical commercial services and goods – fruit vendors, street food or motorcycle taxis, for instance – in a small shared area. This article brings the dynamics of this phenomenon into view under the heuristic rubric of ‘bundling’, reflecting both on diverse examples from present-day Kampala and on some of the phenomenon’s historical and linguistic scaffolding. We take this phenomenon seriously as an alternative form of socio-economic exchange and growth, one that is distinct from liberal and neoliberal imaginaries of an unlimited flow of goods, people, things and services. Bundling, we argue, reflects an aesthetics in which both material value and social relationships are imagined to arise through thickenings of persons and things, assembled and ordered in spatial proximity and symmetry. The article suggests that bundling offers conceptual resources to imagine growth otherwise, as a process unfolding in ways that complicate and clog conventional economic imaginaries.

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“…Paralelamente, y sin especial conexión con la vertiente anglosajona de antropología del cristianismo, una arena de investigaciones centró su análisis en las articulaciones entre instituciones religiosas (o basadas-en--la-fe), agencias de cooperación internacional y proyectos de desarrollo social (Borstein, 2003;Occhipinti, 2005;Scherz, 2014;Barroso, 2015). En este espacio temático de "religión y desarrollo", los estudios examinaron desde enfoques teóricos divergentes las estrategias dinámicas en las políticas y discursos misioneros sobre el desarrollo, como también el rol de las ONGs basadas-en-la-fe en el entramado de relaciones interétnicas entre pueblos indígenas y campesinos (Occhipinti, 2011;Braticevic, 2011;Bolotta, Cheer & Fenner, 2019;Barroso & Abrantes 2020).…”

Section: Cristianismo Modernidad Y Desarrollo: Categorías Críticasunclassified

“Dale tu mano al indio”

Cernadas

2022

Cienc. Soc. y Relig.

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El artículo presenta una indagación sobre las relaciones entre los procesos de misionalización cristiana, las narrativas humanitarias y las asociaciones desarrollistas en el Chaco indígena argentino. El argumento central del estudio afirma que estas construcciones discursivas configuraron nuevos imaginarios sociales que dinamizaron las relaciones entre misiones religiosas, proyectos de desarrollo comunitario y procesos políticos indígenas. Con el interés de establecer un diálogo conceptual y empírico entre la antropología del cristianismo y el espacio temático sobre “religión y desarrollo”, el estudio se organiza en tres partes: 1) una reflexión crítica sobre cristianismo, modernidad y desarrollo como categorías sociales e históricas ; 2) una discusión empírica sobre las articulaciones históricas entre proyectos de misionalización, trabajo social, prácticas higienistas e ideologías humanitarias en comunidades toba/qom y wichí del territorio chaqueño; 3) un análisis sobre las organizaciones ecuménicas católicas y protestantes que trabajaron en el territorio chaqueño desde la década de 1970 y dieron forma a un particular 'indigenismo basado en la fe'.

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Having People, Having Heart

Cited by 127 publications

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Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence

Concerning distributive labour: Exploring the pragmatics of globalised interdependence

On bundling: the aesthetics of exchange and growth in central Uganda

“Dale tu mano al indio”

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