Working in NGO as a (re)production of class status. An example of organizations fighting against prostitution in one of Indian metropolises Cover Image

Praca w NGO jako (re)produkcja statusu klasowego. Na przykładzie organizacji zwalczających prostytucję w jednej z indyjskich metropolii
Working in NGO as a (re)production of class status. An example of organizations fighting against prostitution in one of Indian metropolises

Author(s): Anna Romanowicz
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Civil Society, Culture and social structure
Published by: Uniwersytet Łódzki - Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Keywords: non-governmental organizations; middle classes; development; prostitution; India;

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork and is concerned with non-governmental organizations fighting against prostitution and sex-trafficking in one of Indian metropolises. The author claims that employees of these NGOs picture their beneficiaries as victims of patriarchal oppression in order to (re)create the distinction between themselves (members of the middle classes) and the beneficiaries (members of lower classes). She also analyses the perception of the Others outside of NGO environment. Furthermore, she postulates extension of Orientalism (Buchowski 2006), where the Other is not inscribed in the dichotomy of imaginative geography along the line of „East-West” (Said 1979), but is being (re)constructed based on class distinctions (Buchowski 2006).

  • Issue Year: XIV/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 98-113
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish