DTS200Y1 Lecture Notes - Child Sponsorship, Sociality, Economic Capital
20 Apr 2013
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Talking about different kinds of metaphors to describe the world: child sponsorship- communicates the transnational (crossing of national boundaries), and provides an idea of the local. Internationalism- sense that there are distinct nations in the world which relates to one another: case study of child sponsorship- different analysts used to describe the world. Remittances: when a diaspora sends money back to the homeland. A transfer of money by a foreignit is not just an economic exchange: scales of analysis. Not just about the exchange of money but the manipulation of emotions. Affect: affect is an attention to way that feelings are affected. In response to everyone being a rational object, but in reality i don"t think i feel i. e. child sponsorship: certain images which pull on affective cues that make you feel something. The numbers: 150 million migrants worldwide sent more than 300 billion dollars us to there families around the world in 2006.
