'Are you Married to a Maasai?' Gendered Cultural Encounters Between Tanzanians and Danes in 'Global Citizenship' Training. (2nd November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Christiansen, Lene Bull
• Is Part Of: Journal of intercultural studies. Volume 38:issue 6(2017)
• Page Start: 708
• Page End: 721
• Publication Date: 2017-11-02
• Subjects: Intercultural encounter -- intercultural contact -- gender -- global citizenship; Cross-cultural studies -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals; Civilization, Modern -- Periodicals; Internationalism -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Periodicals; 306
• DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2017.1386635
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0725-6868

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The article analyses the dynamics of 'cultural difference'. It is based on the fieldwork among a group of Danish seniors at a three-week adult education course entitled 'Global Citizenship' in Tanzania with the Danish NGO Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke. The article analyses encounters between the Danes and their Tanzanian teachers. The article explores the training centre Danish, which hosted the course, as a chronotope in which 'being Danish' holds special meaning, and analyses how gender became a lens for depicting culture. The article concludes that normative hierarchical positionalities of gender equality vs. inequality were created in the interplay between students and teachers.