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Abstract

This article critically examines the literature on global aid governance through a feminist lens, focusing on three key areas: epistemic power, organisational depoliticisation, and the ethics of accountability. The review reveals that the coloniality of knowledge in global aid governance creates epistemic hierarchies grounded in claims of objectivity and efficiency, thereby marginalising local voices. Meanwhile, processes such as NGO-isation and professionalisation have transformed activism into administrative compliance. However, within these structures, reflective agency can still emerge through negotiated autonomy and the politics of translation, allowing feminist organisations to maintain their political significance. Regarding ethics, feminist accountability is redefined as a relational practice that opposes the neoliberal model of accountability and emphasises collective responsibility rooted in trust, solidarity, and collective reflection. This review advances a framework of decolonial accountability, shifting from surveillance to collective responsibility, from mere compliance to reflective engagement, and from hierarchical domination to equitable relationships in the context of global aid governance.

Bahasa Abstract

Artikel ini dibangun melalui pemeriksaan kritis terhadap literatur yang terkait tata kelola bantuan global melalui lensa feminis, yang berkonsentrasi pada tiga dimensi analisis: kuasa epistemik, depolitisasi organisasi, dan etika akuntabilitas. Kajian menunjukkan bahwa kolonialitas pengetahuan dalam tata kelola bantuan global membentuk hierarki epistemik melalui klaim objektivitas dan efisiensi, serta menyingkirkan pengalaman lokal. Sementara itu, proses NGO-isation dan profesionalisasi mengubah aktivisme menjadi kepatuhan administratif. Namun, dalam struktur yang sama, muncul bentuk agensi reflektif melalui otonomi yang dinegosiasikan dan politik translasi, yang memungkinkan organisasi feminis mempertahankan makna politiknya. Pada dimensi etika, gagasan akuntabilitas feminis direkonseptualisasikan sebagai praktik relasional yang menolak paradigma akuntabilitas neoliberal, serta menjunjung tinggi akuntabilitas kolektif yang berasaskan kepercayaan, solidaritas, dan introspeksi kolektif. Sintesis literatur ini mengusung kerangka akuntabilitas dekolonial, yang menandakan sebentuk transisi dari pengawasan menuju akuntabilitas kolektif, dari yang hanya sekadar kepatuhan menuju pelibatan reflektif, serta dari dominasi hierarkis menuju hubungan yang adil dalam konteks tata kelola bantuan global.

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