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Audrey Bryan
2016 June
Globalization and Global Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Global citizenship as public pedagogy
Routledge
New York
Published
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This chapter offers a critical exploration of global citizenship as a public pedagogy which seeks to transform the way that citizens think about and engage with development issues. Using a case study approach, it provides a critical exploration of the Global Poverty Project (GPP), a transnational education and advocacy project that seeks to engage Northern publics with issues of global poverty and inequality. It argues that, rather than fostering deep understanding of global poverty or promoting meaningful responses to it, GPP enables a participants to “feel good about feeling bad” about the suffering of distant others by affirming their one’s humanitarianism through apolitical and personalised forms of development engagement that reap personal rewards or dividend. In this way, “doing good” becomes an individualistic and self-interested endeavour through which one can advance one’s sense of moral well-being.
I. Langram and T. Birk
1317377117
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