Education, International Volunteering, and Citizenship: Young People’s Subjectivities and Geographies of Development

Matt Baillie Smith; Nina Laurie; Eleanor Brown; Mark Griffiths; Darryl Humble

doi:10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_21-1

Education, International Volunteering, and Citizenship: Young People’s Subjectivities and Geographies of Development

Matt Baillie Smith, Nina Laurie, Eleanor Brown, Mark Griffiths, Darryl Humble

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This chapter explores the ways geographies of development intersect with the production of young people’s “global” subjectivities and citizenship in the UK. Drawing on research on international volunteering, the “gap year,” faith-based volunteering, global learning, and development education, the chapter analyzes the ways young people’s subjectivities are produced both through and against popular development imaginaries. The growth of international volunteering and its connection to ideas of global citizenship, and the neoliberal professionalization of development education, are used to explore how development has become linked to youth subjectivities in the UK, and the policy framings that shape this. Geographies of religion, education, development, citizenship, and affect are brought together to explore the overlapping and interweaving ways young people’s subjectivities and development can be linked and how this opens and closes spaces for the emergence of more radical youthful citizenships. Research on university-based global citizenship education, faith-based volunteering, and the role of affect in international volunteering are used to show how young people negotiate and challenge neoliberal and popular framings of development and citizenship.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat
Editors	Nicola Ansell, Natascha Klocker, Tracey Skelton
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1-20
ISBN (Print)	978-981-4585-95-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_21-1
Publication status	Published - Apr 2016

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Name	Geographies of Children and Young People
Publisher	Springer

Keywords

Citizenship
Development
Youth
Subjectivity
International volunteering
Development education
Higher education
Faith
Affect

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Baillie Smith, M., Laurie, N., Brown, E., Griffiths, M., & Humble, D. (2016). Education, International Volunteering, and Citizenship: Young People’s Subjectivities and Geographies of Development. In N. Ansell, N. Klocker, & T. Skelton (Eds.), Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat (pp. 1-20). (Geographies of Children and Young People). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_21-1

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Baillie Smith, M, Laurie, N, Brown, E, Griffiths, M & Humble, D 2016, Education, International Volunteering, and Citizenship: Young People’s Subjectivities and Geographies of Development. in N Ansell, N Klocker & T Skelton (eds), Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. Geographies of Children and Young People, Springer, London, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_21-1

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Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. ed. / Nicola Ansell; Natascha Klocker; Tracey Skelton. London: Springer, 2016. p. 1-20 (Geographies of Children and Young People).

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Baillie Smith M, Laurie N, Brown E, Griffiths M, Humble D. Education, International Volunteering, and Citizenship: Young People’s Subjectivities and Geographies of Development. In Ansell N, Klocker N, Skelton T, editors, Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. London: Springer. 2016. p. 1-20. (Geographies of Children and Young People). doi: 10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_21-1

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