Fictions of Humanitarian Responsibility: Narrating Microfinance
dc.contributor.author | Black, Shameem | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-10T22:53:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-10T07:35:35Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.issn | 1475-4835 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/59420 | |
dc.provenance | Author's Pre-print: green tick author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) Author's Post-print: green tick author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) Publisher's Version/PDF: cross author cannot archive publisher's version/PDF | en_AU |
dc.publisher | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.source | Journal of Human Rights | |
dc.title | Fictions of Humanitarian Responsibility: Narrating Microfinance | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 120 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 103 | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Black, Shameem, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.authoremail | u4926832@anu.edu.au | |
local.contributor.authoruid | Black, Shameem, u4926832 | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200206 - Globalisation and Culture | |
local.identifier.absfor | 200526 - Stylistics and Textual Analysis | |
local.identifier.absseo | 950204 - The Media | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u9313329xPUB489 | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 12 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14754835.2013.754293 | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84874607413 | |
local.identifier.thomsonID | 000315583800007 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u9313329 | |
local.type.status | Published Version |
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