Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaGifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands
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...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2014
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| description | 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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| spelling | iconos-article-12742024-04-23T17:36:17Z Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands Regalos, vigilancia y comunidades imaginadas fallidas: ayuda cristiana global y desigualdad en el patrocinio de niños en los Andes ecuatorianos Moreno Parra, María Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) Protestantism Local development Child sponsorship Governmentality. Organizaciones no gubernamentales Protestantismo Desarrollo local Gubernamentalidad 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. 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. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2014-05-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/1274 10.17141/iconos.49.2014.1274 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 49 (2014): Dossier: Economía política y políticas democráticas de comunicación en América Latina; 123-139 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 49 (2014): Dossier: Economía política y políticas democráticas de comunicación en América Latina; 123-139 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 49 (2014): Dossier: Political economy and democratic communication policies in Latin America; 123-139 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/1274/1145 Derechos de autor 2014 María Moreno Parra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Moreno Parra, María Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
| title | Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
| title_full | Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
| title_fullStr | Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
| title_short | Gifts, Surveillance, and Frustrated Imagined Communities: Global Christian Aid and Local Inequalities in Child Sponsorship in the Ecuadorian Highlands |
| title_sort | gifts, surveillance, and frustrated imagined communities: global christian aid and local inequalities in child sponsorship in the ecuadorian highlands |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/1274 |