Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism

ISBN-13: 9780367554538 / Miękka / 2023 / 178 str.

Opis

Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official development sector.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Citizen aid: grassroots interventions in development and humanitarianism Anne-Meike Fechter & Anke Schwittay 2. Demotic humanitarians: historical perspectives on the global reach of local initiatives, 1940–2017 Bertrand Taithe 3. Motivations behind citizen aid: Norwegian initiatives in The Gambia June Fylkesnes 4. Development and the search for connection Anne-Meike Fechter 5. Don’t reinvent the wheel: possibilities for and limits to building capacity of grassroots international NGOs Susan Appe & Allison Schnable 6. The legitimacy of Dutch do-it-yourself initiatives in Kwale County, Kenya Sara Kinsbergen 7. Beyond crisis management? The role of Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity in humanitarian aid: the case of Lesvos Hanne Haaland & Hege Wallevik 8. Humanitarianism, civil society and the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh David Lewis 9. Citizen aid, social media and brokerage after disaster Deirdre McKay & Padmapani Perez 10. Digital mediations of everyday humanitarianism: the case of Kiva.org Anke Schwittay

O autorze

Anne-Meike Fechter is a Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on forms of privileged migration and development in Southeast Asia, with a special interest in how mobility, and support for others, interlink in the field of transnational assistance.

Anke Schwittay is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development and Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on representations of development and their links to everyday humanitarianism, as well as the use of design and creativity in global development. Anke is the author of New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance.