Praca w NGO jako (re)produkcja statusu klasowego : na przykładzie organizacji zwalczających prostytucję w jednej z indyjskich metropolii

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).