Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism: Development Futures?

ISBN-13: 9780367464882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 178 str.

Anne Meike Fechter; Anke Schwittay

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