1st Edition
Affect, Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice
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.
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).
