Affect, Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781032600321 / Twarda / 2023 / 172 str.

Opis

This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development. Going beyond merely placing emotion and/or affect as the objects of study, it examines ‘development’ in fresh ways through analysis of its affective dimensions.

Spis treści

Introduction—Understanding power in development studies through emotion and affect: promising lines of enquiry  1. Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations  2. Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees  3. Feeling climate change to the bone: emotional topologies of climate  4. Intimate technologies for affective development: how crowdfunding platforms commodify interpersonal connections  5. Affective politics of Australian development volunteering  6. Vulnerability as ethical practice: dismantling affective privilege and resilience to transform development hierarchies  7. ‘Doing good and feeling good’: how narratives in development stymie gender equality in organisations  8. Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines  9. (Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies

O autorze

Tanya Jakimow is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Culture, History and Languages, The Australian National University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow working on a project examining women’s political labour and pathways to politics in Indonesia, India and Australia. She is the author of three books, most recently Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia (2020).