Whythequestionstillmatters-中国农业大学人文与发展学院.PDFVIP

COHD SEMINAR SERIES - Critical Issues in Agrarian and Development Studies (CIADS) “农政与发展”系列讲座 IS THE HOUSEHOLD UNIVERSAL? WHY THE QUESTION STILL MATTERS “家户”的概念是普世的吗？对其争论缘何依然重要 BRIDGET O’LAUGHLIN 22 DECEMBER, 2011 THE HOUSEHOLD PARADOX IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND PRACTICE 发展研究与实践中“家户”概念的悖论 We use household surveys constantly 我们不断使用家 户调查 • to compare states of well-being of different populations within and across national boundaries using universal survey instruments 使用通用的调查工具来对比国内和 国家之间不同人口的生活状况 • to assess the impact of policies by comparing the state of households across time 通过对家户状况的纵向对比 来评估政策影响 Yet we have also accepted the importance of gender in analysis and practice (mainstreaming) with its fundamental critique of the concept of the unitary household 然而我们也承认性别在分析和实践中的重要性 以及它对单一家户概念的根本性批判 And historical sociology and anthropology generally dismissed long ago the idea that there is a universal household (particularly for rural Africa and rural China) 历史社会学和人类学基本上在很久之前就驳斥了普世性家户 的观点（尤其是非洲和中国的农村地区） WHAT WILL WE DO IN THIS LECTURE? 这一讲我们要做什么？  Think about the source of the paradox 思考这一悖论的来源  Discuss the gender critique of the unitary household 讨论对 于单一家户的性别批判  Discuss the implications of the critique for development research 讨论这种批判对发展研究的意义  Objective: illustrate the usefulness of gender analysis applied to an important question in rural development 目标：阐明将性别分析应用于一个农村发展重要问题中的有效性 WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF THE PARADOX? 悖论从何而来  Household is a comparative analytical concept that demands consistent definition across space and time 家户 是一个比较性的分析概念，它需要随时空变迁进行连贯性的界 定  Household is a technique of governance used in counting and controlling populations 家户是一个用于统计和控制人口 的治理术  The new household economics has dominated the neo- liberal development consensus 新家庭经济学主导了新自由 主义的发