Anke Schwittay
Biographic Data
| ID | 147669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anke Schwittay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anke |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwittay |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWITTAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7592-2403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Towards Intergenerational Housing Solidarity
The widening generational divide in housing access and security raises urgent academic and practical questions about growing urban inequities and solutions to them. In response, this article proposes the new conceptual and empirical lens of Intergenerational Housing Solidarity (IGHS). Drawing on scholarship on kin-based housing support, urban social movements and cooperative housing, IGHS provides a multi-dimensional framework to analyse the rela…
University Work Experiences in International Development: Expanding Locations, Spaces and Pathways
How can university work experiences contribute to reframing International Development from expert saviourism rooted in colonial legacies into a project of social justice and global solidarity? In this article, I propose the design of work-experiential pedagogies that integrate practical work experiences with critical theoretical teaching and an emphasis on students’ experiential knowledge. Such pedagogies call for an expansion of the forms of uni…
Students take over: Prefiguring Urban Commons in Student Housing Co-Operatives
Student housing has become financialized in many countries, resulting in unaffordable and unsuitable accommodations that negatively affect students' studies and health. Students are beginning to mobilize against these exploitative practices in resistive and future-oriented ways. This article analyses the establishment of student housing co-operatives in the UK as an example of prefigurative student activism, whereby students are actively creating…
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives
Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures
Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures
How can higher education contribute to tackling today's complex challenges? In this wide-ranging book, the author argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities. The author proposes a critical-creative pedagogy that incorporates design-based activities, experiential teaching, se…
Ethical citizenship and global development: Exploring the intersections
Departing from Aihwa Ong's influential analysis of citizenship as a Foucauldian cultural project of subject-making, this contribution examines three global development citizen-subjects: transnational high-tech companies, marginalized women, and everyday humanitarians. It draws on two ethnographic research projects to analyze how market logics and digital technologies contribute to the global configurations of corporate citizenship and online micr…
Designing Urban Women’s Safety: An Empirical Study of Inclusive Innovation Through a Gender Transformation Lens
Citizen aid: Grassroots interventions in development and humanitarianism
The introduction to this collection brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded forms of aid and development. It notes the steady rise of these activities, including in the Global South as well as North, such as in the context of the recent European refugee crisis. It considers their position vis-à-vis more institutionalised forms of aid; meth…
Digital mediations of everyday humanitarianism: The case of Kiva.org
The proliferation of Web 2.0 platforms that aim to facilitate social action, often connected to international development or environmental sustainability, has contributed to the ongoing popularisation of development. In this article, I argue that it has resulted in the digitally-enabled constitution of everyday humanitarians, who are everyday people supportive of poverty alleviation. Kiva.org, a US-based online microlending platform that invites …
Experiential and empathetic engagements with global poverty: ‘Live below the line so that others can rise above it’
In recent years events that physically challenge Northern publics have emerged as a new form of engagement with global poverty. In this article we examine the ‘Live Below the Line’ (LBTL) campaign, which asks participants to live on a small amount of money equivalent to the international poverty line for five days, as an example of experiential exercises that complement physical challenges with the simulation of some aspect of poor people’s lives…
Scaling inclusive digital innovation successfully: The Case of Crowdfunding Social Enterprises
There is a growing interest in how organizations and initiatives that innovate to use information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) can scale their operations, reach and impact. This article takes a systemic and socio-technical approach to analyse the successful scaling of a crowdfunding social enterprise. It traces the growth of the ‘innofusion’ network of the world's first person-to-person microlending platform, with particu…
Integrating research, policy and practice
Designing Development: Humanitarian Design in the Financial Inclusion Assemblage
This article examines the emergence of a new group of development experts who tackle development problems in 'innovative' ways: professional designers and the organizations that fund them. What has become known as humanitarian design is an instantiation of the afterlives of development, which redefines the problem of development as eliciting the needs of poor clients and creating mechanisms so that they can provide feedback on proposed solutions.…
Afterlives of Development
Representing financial inclusion: The CGAP microfinance photo contest (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This article examines representations of financial inclusion through the lens of the CGAP microfinance photo contest. It situates the contest's winning images within current contestations surrounding global financial inclusion strategies, to show how these photos construct particular representations of microfinance that legitimize CGAP's minimalist, commercially‐driven model. The production of the need for large‐scale financial inclusion is key t…
The financial inclusion assemblage: Subjects, technics, rationalities
This article introduces financial inclusion as a global assemblage of subjects, technics, and rationalities that aim to develop poor-appropriate financial products and services. Microfinance forms the foundation, but also the boundary of the assemblage, which is premised on the assumption that the 2.7 billion poor people in the world who do not currently have access to formal loan, savings, and insurance products are in need of such offerings. Th…
The Marketization of Poverty
Increasingly, transnational corporations (TNCs) see themselves, and are seen by multilateral development organizations and national governments, as part of the solution to global poverty alleviation. Guided by C. K. Prahalad's theories about the "bottom of the pyramid" (BoP), TNCs are developing products and services for the billions of people living on a few dollars a day that are supposed to enable these poor people to enterprise themselves out…
Anthropologists Take on the Financial Crisis: Interviews on Money and Finance
‘A Living Lab’: Corporate Delivery of ICTs in Rural India
Information and Ccommunication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as essential tools in development projects that can create new sources of income, make governments more transparent and accessible, improve education and health care, and overcome social exclusion and discrimination. To harness these potentials, multinational hi–tech corporations are forming public–private partnerships with governments, development institutions and civil soc…
From Peasant Favors to Indigenous Rights The Articulation of an Indigenous Identity and Land Struggle in Northwestern Argentina
From Peasant Favors to Indigenous Rights The Articulation of an Indigenous Identity and Land Struggle in Northwestern Argentina
A travel de la comparacion de dos movilizaciones por la tierra realizadas por un grupo de indigenas Kollas del Noroeste Argentino (la primera en 1946 y la segunda en 1993), este articulo explora las formas cambiantes que estas luchas han asumido en los ultimos 50 anos. La investigacion del papel que las memorias de la marcha de 1946 jugaron durante la mobilizacion de 1993 es seguida por una comparacion del lenguaje de las demandas de ambas marcha…
The financial inclusion assemblage: Subjects, technics, rationalities
This article introduces financial inclusion as a global assemblage of subjects, technics, and rationalities that aim to develop poor-appropriate financial products and services. Microfinance forms the foundation, but also the boundary of the assemblage, which is premised on the assumption that the 2.7 billion poor people in the world who do not currently have access to formal loan, savings, and insurance products are in need of such offerings. Th…
The Marketization of Poverty
Increasingly, transnational corporations (TNCs) see themselves, and are seen by multilateral development organizations and national governments, as part of the solution to global poverty alleviation. Guided by C. K. Prahalad's theories about the "bottom of the pyramid" (BoP), TNCs are developing products and services for the billions of people living on a few dollars a day that are supposed to enable these poor people to enterprise themselves out…
Afterlives of Development
Designing Development: Humanitarian Design in the Financial Inclusion Assemblage
This article examines the emergence of a new group of development experts who tackle development problems in 'innovative' ways: professional designers and the organizations that fund them. What has become known as humanitarian design is an instantiation of the afterlives of development, which redefines the problem of development as eliciting the needs of poor clients and creating mechanisms so that they can provide feedback on proposed solutions.…
Citizen aid: Grassroots interventions in development and humanitarianism
The introduction to this collection brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded forms of aid and development. It notes the steady rise of these activities, including in the Global South as well as North, such as in the context of the recent European refugee crisis. It considers their position vis-à-vis more institutionalised forms of aid; meth…
Digital mediations of everyday humanitarianism: The case of Kiva.org
The proliferation of Web 2.0 platforms that aim to facilitate social action, often connected to international development or environmental sustainability, has contributed to the ongoing popularisation of development. In this article, I argue that it has resulted in the digitally-enabled constitution of everyday humanitarians, who are everyday people supportive of poverty alleviation. Kiva.org, a US-based online microlending platform that invites …
Students take over: Prefiguring Urban Commons in Student Housing Co-Operatives
Student housing has become financialized in many countries, resulting in unaffordable and unsuitable accommodations that negatively affect students' studies and health. Students are beginning to mobilize against these exploitative practices in resistive and future-oriented ways. This article analyses the establishment of student housing co-operatives in the UK as an example of prefigurative student activism, whereby students are actively creating…
Scaling inclusive digital innovation successfully: The Case of Crowdfunding Social Enterprises
There is a growing interest in how organizations and initiatives that innovate to use information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) can scale their operations, reach and impact. This article takes a systemic and socio-technical approach to analyse the successful scaling of a crowdfunding social enterprise. It traces the growth of the ‘innofusion’ network of the world's first person-to-person microlending platform, with particu…
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives
Designing Urban Women’s Safety: An Empirical Study of Inclusive Innovation Through a Gender Transformation Lens
From Peasant Favors to Indigenous Rights The Articulation of an Indigenous Identity and Land Struggle in Northwestern Argentina
From Peasant Favors to Indigenous Rights The Articulation of an Indigenous Identity and Land Struggle in Northwestern Argentina
A travel de la comparacion de dos movilizaciones por la tierra realizadas por un grupo de indigenas Kollas del Noroeste Argentino (la primera en 1946 y la segunda en 1993), este articulo explora las formas cambiantes que estas luchas han asumido en los ultimos 50 anos. La investigacion del papel que las memorias de la marcha de 1946 jugaron durante la mobilizacion de 1993 es seguida por una comparacion del lenguaje de las demandas de ambas marcha…
‘A Living Lab’: Corporate Delivery of ICTs in Rural India
Information and Ccommunication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as essential tools in development projects that can create new sources of income, make governments more transparent and accessible, improve education and health care, and overcome social exclusion and discrimination. To harness these potentials, multinational hi–tech corporations are forming public–private partnerships with governments, development institutions and civil soc…
Anthropologists Take on the Financial Crisis: Interviews on Money and Finance
The financial inclusion assemblage: Subjects, technics, rationalities
This article introduces financial inclusion as a global assemblage of subjects, technics, and rationalities that aim to develop poor-appropriate financial products and services. Microfinance forms the foundation, but also the boundary of the assemblage, which is premised on the assumption that the 2.7 billion poor people in the world who do not currently have access to formal loan, savings, and insurance products are in need of such offerings. Th…
The Marketization of Poverty
Increasingly, transnational corporations (TNCs) see themselves, and are seen by multilateral development organizations and national governments, as part of the solution to global poverty alleviation. Guided by C. K. Prahalad's theories about the "bottom of the pyramid" (BoP), TNCs are developing products and services for the billions of people living on a few dollars a day that are supposed to enable these poor people to enterprise themselves out…
Representing financial inclusion: The CGAP microfinance photo contest (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
This article examines representations of financial inclusion through the lens of the CGAP microfinance photo contest. It situates the contest's winning images within current contestations surrounding global financial inclusion strategies, to show how these photos construct particular representations of microfinance that legitimize CGAP's minimalist, commercially‐driven model. The production of the need for large‐scale financial inclusion is key t…
Integrating research, policy and practice
Designing Development: Humanitarian Design in the Financial Inclusion Assemblage
This article examines the emergence of a new group of development experts who tackle development problems in 'innovative' ways: professional designers and the organizations that fund them. What has become known as humanitarian design is an instantiation of the afterlives of development, which redefines the problem of development as eliciting the needs of poor clients and creating mechanisms so that they can provide feedback on proposed solutions.…
Afterlives of Development
Experiential and empathetic engagements with global poverty: ‘Live below the line so that others can rise above it’
In recent years events that physically challenge Northern publics have emerged as a new form of engagement with global poverty. In this article we examine the ‘Live Below the Line’ (LBTL) campaign, which asks participants to live on a small amount of money equivalent to the international poverty line for five days, as an example of experiential exercises that complement physical challenges with the simulation of some aspect of poor people’s lives…
Scaling inclusive digital innovation successfully: The Case of Crowdfunding Social Enterprises
There is a growing interest in how organizations and initiatives that innovate to use information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) can scale their operations, reach and impact. This article takes a systemic and socio-technical approach to analyse the successful scaling of a crowdfunding social enterprise. It traces the growth of the ‘innofusion’ network of the world's first person-to-person microlending platform, with particu…
Designing Urban Women’s Safety: An Empirical Study of Inclusive Innovation Through a Gender Transformation Lens
Citizen aid: Grassroots interventions in development and humanitarianism
The introduction to this collection brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded forms of aid and development. It notes the steady rise of these activities, including in the Global South as well as North, such as in the context of the recent European refugee crisis. It considers their position vis-à-vis more institutionalised forms of aid; meth…
Digital mediations of everyday humanitarianism: The case of Kiva.org
The proliferation of Web 2.0 platforms that aim to facilitate social action, often connected to international development or environmental sustainability, has contributed to the ongoing popularisation of development. In this article, I argue that it has resulted in the digitally-enabled constitution of everyday humanitarians, who are everyday people supportive of poverty alleviation. Kiva.org, a US-based online microlending platform that invites …
Ethical citizenship and global development: Exploring the intersections
Departing from Aihwa Ong's influential analysis of citizenship as a Foucauldian cultural project of subject-making, this contribution examines three global development citizen-subjects: transnational high-tech companies, marginalized women, and everyday humanitarians. It draws on two ethnographic research projects to analyze how market logics and digital technologies contribute to the global configurations of corporate citizenship and online micr…
Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures
Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures
How can higher education contribute to tackling today's complex challenges? In this wide-ranging book, the author argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities. The author proposes a critical-creative pedagogy that incorporates design-based activities, experiential teaching, se…
University Work Experiences in International Development: Expanding Locations, Spaces and Pathways
How can university work experiences contribute to reframing International Development from expert saviourism rooted in colonial legacies into a project of social justice and global solidarity? In this article, I propose the design of work-experiential pedagogies that integrate practical work experiences with critical theoretical teaching and an emphasis on students’ experiential knowledge. Such pedagogies call for an expansion of the forms of uni…
Students take over: Prefiguring Urban Commons in Student Housing Co-Operatives
Student housing has become financialized in many countries, resulting in unaffordable and unsuitable accommodations that negatively affect students' studies and health. Students are beginning to mobilize against these exploitative practices in resistive and future-oriented ways. This article analyses the establishment of student housing co-operatives in the UK as an example of prefigurative student activism, whereby students are actively creating…
Prefigurative pedagogies: Learning to build alternative futures in student housing co-operatives
Towards Intergenerational Housing Solidarity
The widening generational divide in housing access and security raises urgent academic and practical questions about growing urban inequities and solutions to them. In response, this article proposes the new conceptual and empirical lens of Intergenerational Housing Solidarity (IGHS). Drawing on scholarship on kin-based housing support, urban social movements and cooperative housing, IGHS provides a multi-dimensional framework to analyse the rela…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Engineering (6 works)