New Media and International Development

Representation and affect in microfinance

Anke Schwittay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-85608-9 (ISBN)

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New Media and International Development is the first in-depth examination of microfinance’s enduring popularity with Northern publics. Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance of development rituals and through bonds of fellowship between Northern donors and Southern recipients. These practices constitute people in the global North as everyday humanitarians and mobilize their affective investments, which are financial, social and emotional investments in distant others to alleviate their poverty. This book draws on ethnographic material from the US, India and Indonesia and the anthropological and development studies literature on humanitarianism, affect and the public faces of development. It opens up novel avenues of research into the formation of new development subjects in the global North.

This book will appeal to researchers and students of international development, anthropology, media studies and related fields, as well as practitioners and professionals in the field of international development

Anke Schwittay is Senior Lecturer of Anthopology and International Development at the University of Sussex, UK.

Prologue Part 1: Foundations 1. Introducing New Media and International Development 2. A Brief History of Affective Engagements Part 2: Mediations 3. Virtual Stories 4. Representing Microfinance Part 3: Encounters 5. Microfinance Tourism 6. Affective Labor 7. Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.9.2014
Reihe/Serie	Rethinking Development
Zusatzinfo	10 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-415-85608-6 / 0415856086
ISBN-13	978-0-415-85608-9 / 9780415856089
Zustand	Neuware