Geographies of identity: the intimate cosmopolitan

Mitchell, Katharyne

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“…Such an identity would share the same commitments to human rights as the putative 'postnational citizenship' described by Soysal (1994) and others (e.g. Post, 2006;Appiah 2007;Mitchell, 2007), but is nevertheless firmly linked to and supported by a territoriallydefined nation. South Africa's cosmopolitanism is narrated through its 'united in diversity' motto.…”

Section: Identities As Citizensmentioning

confidence: 66%

‘For the future of the nation’: Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa

Staeheli

Hammett

2013

Political Geography

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Section: Identities As Citizensmentioning

confidence: 66%

‘For the future of the nation’: Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa

Staeheli

Hammett

2013

Political Geography

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“…An embodiment framework particularly resonates with feminist theory and a recently evolving interest in cosmopolitan feminism (Butler 2004;Mitchell 2007;Reilly 2007), some of which is specifically located in tourism (Ateljevic and Swain 2006;Molz 2007;Lisle 2008). Diverse interests in the cosmopolitan project provide a range of insights.…”

Section: Embodied Cosmopolitanism and Feminist Analysismentioning

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The Cosmopolitan Hope of Tourism: Critical Action and Worldmaking Vistas

Swain

2009

Tourism Geographies

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“…(Baillie Smith et al, 2013, p. 7) Perhaps we might better see the 'cosmopolitan' efforts of volunteer tourism as ambivalent, dependent on particular practices: at times an expression of western privilege to consume difference, at times a 'technology of rule' creating self-regulating subjects who have responsibilities beyond but simultaneously to the nation, and at times containing a currency and potential to encourage lived practices of ethical acts of care, respect and tolerance that are deeply necessary given the many 'structures of violence' in society (Mitchell, 2007). The cases recounted here bring up sharp questions around class -volunteer tourism must be viewed critically where it reinforces classed inequalities, and yet there is potential in widening class participation in volunteer tourism for transnational solidarity and the recognition of the worth and virtue of young subjects who face classed prejudice.…”

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“…Whilst relative privilege must be always acknowledged, such resonances may form the basis of speaking to not for, others. This echoes work by feminist scholars on cosmopolitanism and ethics, which argues that mutual recognition of bodily vulnerabilities, loss and pain may be a basis for an ethics of care which crosses transnational borders (McRobbie, 2006;Mitchell, 2007). In classed experiences of volunteer tourism, we might wonder whether there is scope for young subject to draw on a shared experience of stigmatisation around poverty.…”

Section: Non-elite Cosmopolitanisms and Ongoing Potentials Of Global mentioning

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Class and global citizenship: perspectives from non-elite young people’s participation in volunteer tourism

Judge

2017

Tourism Recreation Research

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Who is 'the global citizen?'. The ideals of global citizenship surrounding volunteer tourism have come under criticism for being invoked in universalising ways, whilst in fact expressing privilege. The assumption in these critiques of the global citizen as 'western, white, middle or upper class, educated, connected' overlooks the diversification of subjects taking part in volunteer tourism, even as it illuminates that we should question the idea of singular, abstract global citizen. This paper -drawing on research with trips run by youth groups based on UK council estates travelling to sub-Saharan Africa -uses perspectives on classed experiences of volunteering to offer some provocations. Firstly, it argues that it is inadequate to invoke a homogeneous figure of the 'privileged volunteer'. Secondly, there is need for more work that asks how contemporary imaginings of 'good works' in the global south are constitutive of subjectivities and exert a political force in the global north, in various ways for particularly positioned subjects. The paper argues that for some subjects, popular ideals of 'global cosmopolitan citizenship' are being drawn into longer-standing projects of reform of the national citizen. However, studying volunteer tourism in practice always reveals ambivalent potential for more emancipatory dynamics and expressions of 'cosmopolitan empathy'. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Geographies of identity: the intimate cosmopolitan

Cited by 91 publications

References 58 publications

‘For the future of the nation’: Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa

‘For the future of the nation’: Citizenship, nation, and education in South Africa

The Cosmopolitan Hope of Tourism: Critical Action and Worldmaking Vistas

Class and global citizenship: perspectives from non-elite young people’s participation in volunteer tourism

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