1st Edition
Affect, Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice
Introduction—Understanding power in development studies through emotion and affect: promising lines of enquiry
Tanya Jakimow
1. Indigenous peoples’ responses to land exclusions: emotions, affective links and power relations
Sochanny Hak, Yvonne Underhill-Sem and Chanrith Ngin
2. Solidarity and ‘social jealousy’: emotions and affect in Indonesian host society’s situated encounters with refugees
Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad
3. Feeling climate change to the bone: emotional topologies of climate
Sarah Wright, Jagjit Plahe and Gavin Jack
4. Intimate technologies for affective development: how crowdfunding platforms commodify interpersonal connections
Shonali Ayesha Banerjee
5. Affective politics of Australian development volunteering
Susanne Schech
6. Vulnerability as ethical practice: dismantling affective privilege and resilience to transform development hierarchies
Tanya Jakimow
7. ‘Doing good and feeling good’: how narratives in development stymie gender equality in organisations
Joyce Wu
8. Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines
Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete
9. (Dis)comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies
Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Shonali Ayesha Banerjee, Sochanny Hak, Tanya Jakimow, Chanrith Ngin, Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad, Susanne Schech, Yvonne Underhill-Sem and Joyce Wu
Biography
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).
