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Affect, Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

Tanya Jakimow (The Australian National University, Australia)

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English
Routledge
06 May 2025
Series: ThirdWorlds
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.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 174mm, 
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9781032600345
ISBN 10:   1032600349
Series:   ThirdWorlds
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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).

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