The global citizenship nexus : critical studies / edited by Debra D. Chapman, Tania Ruiz-Chapman and Peter Eglin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chapman, Debra D., 1957- editor.

Ruiz-Chapman, Tania, editor.

Eglin, Peter, editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology ; 282.

Routledge advances in sociology ; 282

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social institutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"In the spirit of Ivan Illich's 1968 speech 'To hell with good intentions', the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship. Its characteristic discourse can be found inhabiting a nexus of four complexes of 'ruling' institutions, namely universities with their international service learning, the United Nations and allied international institutions bent on global citizenship education, international non-governmental organizations and foundations promoting social entrepreneurship, and global corporations and their mouthpieces pitching corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. The question is: in the context of Northern or Western imperialism and US-led, neoliberal, global, corporate capitalism, and the planetary Armageddon they are wringing, what is the concept of global citizenship doing for these institutions? The studies in the book put this question to each of these four institutional complexes from broadly political-economic and post-colonial premises, focusing on the concept's discursive use, against the background of the mounting production of the global non-citizen as the global citizen's 'other'. Addressed to all users of the concept of global citizen(ship) from university students and faculty in global studies to social entrepreneurs and United Nations bureaucrats, the book's studies ultimately ask whether the idea helps or hinders the global quest for social and economic justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Part I: Stance and origin

Chapter 1: Introduction

Why this book?

Theoretical perspective(s)

The theoretical argument: global citizenship as neoliberal capitalist subjectivity

The empirical argument and structure of the book

Notes

References

Chapter 2: Global citizenship education and the making of America's neoliberal empire

The present

Pre-World War I

The interwar years

Post-World War II

The present again

Part II: Borders and global non-citizenship

Chapter 3: The Cartesian subject as global citizen, the migrant as non-human: Humanity, subjectivity and citizenship at the US-Mexican border

An example of the political-economic problem

Borders

Subjectivity and the US-Mexican border

Constructed death zones: constructing a Cartesian global citizen

Detention/deportation exemplifying the impossibility of global citizenship

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Global capitalism, immanent borders, and corporeal citizenship

Introduction

Immanent borders between the local and the global: contextualizing Asians and Latinxs in Southern California

Conceiving corporeal citizenship in global capitalism

Immigrant workers enacting corporeal citizenship in ethnic restaurants

Part III: Global citizenship and the universities

Chapter 5: Global citizenship in the neoliberal Canadian university

Description of the data

Political-economic analytic commentary

Chapter 6: Global citizenship education and its discontents, from the global North to the global South.

Introduction: the premise and critiques of global citizenship education

GCE initiatives: further homogenizationor opening the debates?

United States: postcolonial sentimentalism of the global North GCE initiatives

Global citizenship and the differences of the 'others within'

The GCE initiative in Colombia: the desirable values

Colombia GCE discourses and practice of the 'commoditized schools'

Conclusions: confronting the inequality structures and the exclusionary logic in GCE

Note

Part IV: Global citizenship and the international institutions

Chapter 7: Global citizenship and neo-republicanism?: Problematising the 'neoliberal subjectivities' critique

Development, security and neoliberal subjectivity?

Incorporation and coupling: GCE, PVE-E and youth engagement

Document analysis

Appendix

Chapter 8: International policy influencers and their agendas on global citizenship: A critical analysis of OECD and UNESCO discourses

Conceptualising global citizenship in a globalised framework

'Global competence' from the perspective of the OECD

Global citizenship as a way to promote peace, according to UNESCO

A critical analysis of the discourse of the OECD and UNESCO2

Final remarks

Part V: Global citizenship and the benevolent actors

Chapter 9: Benevolence, global citizenship, and post-racial politics

Global citizenship, benevolence, and imagined relations

Global citizenship as the spectacle and erasure of whiteness

Bridges that Unite, pluralism, and benevolence

Benevolence as the signature of modernity

Chapter 10: The social entrepreneur as global citizen: A critical appraisal of a theory of social change

Introduction.

Global citizenship and the social entrepreneur

The historical trajectory of SE

Who is a social entrepreneur?

SE in crisis

Part VI: Global citizenship and the multi/trans-national corporations

Chapter 11: Constructing 'progressive neoliberal' citizens: The political economy of corporate global imaginaries

'Citizens of the world': corporate imaginaries and the formation of global subjects

Corporate case studies

Conclusions

Chapter 12: The empire of 'global civil society': corporations, NGOs, and international development

'Global citizenship' as capitalist ideology

The corporation as moral agent: ideologies of global corporate citizenship from monopoly capitalism to the postwar order

The aborted challenge to global corporate citizenship: from postwar crisis to neoliberal restructuring

Neoliberalism's 'human face': 'global citizenship' and 'sustainable development' in the long 1990s

Conclusion: revaluing capitalism for the long term?

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-06280-5

1-000-06278-3

0-429-32066-3

9780429320668

OCLC:

1137207977