Fictions of Humanitarian Responsibility: Narrating Microfinance

dc.contributor.authorBlack, Shameem
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:53:37Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.updated2015-12-10T07:35:35Z
dc.description.abstractThis article explores competing narratives of humanitarian responsibility that emerge in the digital life writings of Westerners who seek to mitigate global poverty through the American microfinance website Kiva. Using word maps to identify dominant rhetorical gestures, data analysis to detect emergent patterns, and close readings to interpret individual tone and genre, I look at a range of ways in which individuals on Kiva narrate their understanding of humanitarian motivation. In addition to conventions of an ethics of care, norms of reciprocity, and perceptions of worldliness, these digital life writings include an increasing emphasis on the responsible lender as the antiheroic, perverse subject who impersonates a responsible citizen without fully claiming or accepting full responsibility for humanitarian actions. These different modes not only work to articulate connections between givers and receivers of aid but also to seek to recalibrate the grounds of what aid givers consider their own community. These different modes offer a window into what I call the fictionalization of humanitarianism, or the way in which humanitarian responsibility constitutes a layered anthology of collaborative and competing stories.en_AU
dc.identifier.issn1475-4835
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/59420
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dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceJournal of Human Rights
dc.titleFictions of Humanitarian Responsibility: Narrating Microfinance
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage120
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage103
local.contributor.affiliationBlack, Shameem, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu4926832@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidBlack, Shameem, u4926832
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor200206 - Globalisation and Culture
local.identifier.absfor200526 - Stylistics and Textual Analysis
local.identifier.absseo950204 - The Media
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9313329xPUB489
local.identifier.citationvolume12
local.identifier.doi10.1080/14754835.2013.754293
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84874607413
local.identifier.thomsonID000315583800007
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9313329
local.type.statusPublished Version

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