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Citizen aid, social media and brokerage after disaster / McKay, Deirdre

Mckay, Deirdre	Journal Article
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In a crisis, aid providers deliver humanitarian relief across a hierarchy of organisations where influence and capacity map to their scale of operations. On the front lines of crises, ‘citizen aid’ is what small, local and informal groups offer to fellow citizens. These citizen aid groups are well-networked in place and tend to work through longstanding personal relationships. In the Philippines, citizen aid groups frequently support their activities by documenting their work with photos of beneficiaries to solicit donations from within the country and around the world across social media platforms. This paper builds on recent debates on brokerage through a case study of citizen aid in the relief effort after Typhoon Haiyan (2013–2017). Using this case-study approach, we demonstrate how social media has produced novel forms of brokerage shaped by circulating images online. This new kind of brokerage involves a layered network of brokers that both shapes citizen aid efforts and creates new channels for localising aid, enhancing the control of citizen groups in the Global South over aid.

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Humanitarian Aid ; Social Media ; Brokerage ; Typhoon Haiyan ; Citizen Aid ; Post-Disaster Relief

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Mediated diasporas: material translations of he Philippines in a globalized world / Johnson, Mark; McKay, Deirdre

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2011.

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Philippines ; United Kingdom ; Diasporas ; UK ; Globalized World

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Practices of place-making: globalization and locality in the Philippines / Mckay, Deirdre; Brady, Carol

Aug 2005

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Aug 2005.

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Globalization ; Migration ; Development ; Philippines

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