Abstract
This chapter presents a critical challenge to the celebration of global citizenship and its role in development. Exploring how ideas of global citizenship have played a key role in the recent popularisation of development, I show how its mainstreaming can reinforce citizenships rooted in ideas of benevolent responsibility for the other. Using research on development education and international volunteering, I demonstrate how global citizenship has become depoliticised, and how development is used to achieve wider personal, corporate, and state objectives in relation to citizenship. In this chapter, I argue that looking beyond popular global citizenship initiatives reveals a range of emerging and existent global citizenships of importance to redefining development in terms of global justice.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of International Development |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 99-117 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781137427243 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137427236 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
