Camarg K R, Mattos R A
Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Glob Public Health. 2008;3 Suppl 2:92-104. doi: 10.1080/17441690801980896.
The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of how issues on sexuality are captured by the World Bank's economic rationality, producing a sanitised discourse which, through its silences, further contributes to a normalised view of sexuality. Given the Bank's authority to determine what kinds of health and development programmes are established in the developing world, it is in a unique position to influence approaches to issues of gender and sexuality. An analysis of the Bank's documents reveals, however, that rather than addressing these fundamental components of some of the most pressing health emergencies of our time, its economic rationality and technocratic viewpoint has effectively silenced and sanitised the discourse on sexuality, thereby limiting what sexuality and gender-related issues can be tackled in the context of Bank sponsored programmes, and constraining efforts to advance fundamental sexual rights. Nevertheless, unexpected and paradoxical results may arise from that process, which, thus, does not necessarily lead to the furthering of a comprehensive conservative agenda.
本文旨在分析世界银行的经济合理性如何捕捉性取向问题，从而产生一种经过净化的话语，这种话语通过其沉默，进一步促成了对性取向的常态化看法。鉴于世行有权决定在发展中世界设立何种卫生与发展项目，它在影响性别与性取向问题的处理方式上具有独特地位。然而，对世行文件的分析表明，其经济合理性和技术官僚观点并未解决我们这个时代一些最紧迫卫生紧急情况的这些基本要素，反而有效地使关于性取向的话语沉默并进行了净化，从而限制了在世行资助项目背景下能够解决的与性取向和性别相关的问题，并制约了推进基本性权利的努力。尽管如此，这一过程可能会产生意想不到且自相矛盾的结果，因此，这不一定会导致全面保守议程的推进。
