1st Edition
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism Development Futures?
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
Biography
Anne-Meike Fechter is a Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on forms of privileged migration and development in Southeast Asia, with a special interest in how mobility, and support for others, interlink in the field of transnational assistance.
Anke Schwittay is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development and Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on representations of development and their links to everyday humanitarianism, as well as the use of design and creativity in global development. Anke is the author of New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance.
