Affect, Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2023
186 pages
978-1-003-85027-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Affect and emotions are complicit in the structural conditions that sustain material and social inequalities and deprivations, and critical to the potential for disruption and transformation. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how affect and emotions enrich understandings of, or rethink power configurations in development while being attentive to forces of destabilization and creativity. They unravel the subtleties of power in development from micro to macro scales, enhance the understanding of development as an inherently political process, and highlight the possibilities for resistance and transformation. The book introduces new lines of enquiry to understand power in development theory and practice, grounded in rich empirical research from across Asia and Australia and will be a valuable resource for students and researchers of anthropology, third world studies, development studies and development theory.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Affect and emotions are complicit in the structural conditions that sustain material and social inequalities and deprivations, and critical to the potential for disruption and transformation. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how affect and emotions enrich understandings of, or rethink power configurations in development while being attentive to forces of destabilization and creativity. They unravel the subtleties of power in development from micro to macro scales, enhance the understanding of development as an inherently political process, and highlight the possibilities for resistance and transformation. The book introduces new lines of enquiry to understand power in development theory and practice, grounded in rich empirical research from across Asia and Australia and will be a valuable resource for students and researchers of anthropology, third world studies, development studies and development theory.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ebooks
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-003-85027-4 (9781003850274)
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Person
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).
Content
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
