Regalos, vigilancia y comunidades imaginadas fallidas: ayuda cristiana global y desigualdad en el patrocinio de niños en los Andes ecuatorianos
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Moreno Parra, María
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Quito : FLACSO Sede Ecuador
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Este ensayo analiza la manera en la cual una organización para el desarrollo indígena, que trabaja con una agencia internacional evangélica donante, participa en un ‘gobierno de poblaciones’ a través del sistema de patrocinio de niños. Por un lado, la organización indígena está sujeta a la verticalidad jerárquica de la agencia, a través del proceso de legibilidad y rendición de cuentas, llevado a cabo para asegurar el correcto funcionamiento del sistema de patrocinio. Por otro lado, la organización indígena vigila a ciertos sectores de la población y controla a los niños y a sus familias. Además, se explica cómo las prácticas relacionadas al patrocinio de niños –tales como los regalos que mandan los padrinos y la correspondencia entre padrinos y niños– son intentos por construir conexiones personales dentro de una comunidad cristiana que trasciende fronteras geográficas, económicas y sociales; sin embargo, éstas prácticas terminan incrementando la desigualdad, especialmente a nivel local.
In this paper I examine how an indigenous development organization that works with an international evangelica0l funding agency participates in the ‘government of populations’ through the system of child sponsorship. On the one hand, the indigenous organization is subjected to the verticality of its funding agency through processes of legibility and accountability that ensure the correct operation of child sponsorship. On the other, the indigenous organization is a subject governing specific populations because it controls the children and its families. Furthermore, I explore how practices linked to child sponsorship –such as gifts sent by sponsors and the correspondence between sponsors and children– are intended to build personal connections in a Christian community that transcends geographical, economic, and social boundaries, but end up amplifying inequality, especially at the local level.
In this paper I examine how an indigenous development organization that works with an international evangelica0l funding agency participates in the ‘government of populations’ through the system of child sponsorship. On the one hand, the indigenous organization is subjected to the verticality of its funding agency through processes of legibility and accountability that ensure the correct operation of child sponsorship. On the other, the indigenous organization is a subject governing specific populations because it controls the children and its families. Furthermore, I explore how practices linked to child sponsorship –such as gifts sent by sponsors and the correspondence between sponsors and children– are intended to build personal connections in a Christian community that transcends geographical, economic, and social boundaries, but end up amplifying inequality, especially at the local level.
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p. 123-139
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Moreno, M. (2014). Regalos, vigilancia y comunidades imaginadas fallidas: ayuda cristiana global y desigualdad en el patrocinio de niños en los Andes ecuatorianos (Temas) = Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands. En: Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales. Economía política y políticas democráticas de comunicación en América Latina, 18(49): 123-139. ISSN: 1390-1249.
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