TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Are you married to a Maasai?’
T2 - Gendered Cultural Encounters Between Tanzanians and Danes in ‘Global Citizenship’ Training
AU - Christiansen, Lene Bull
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1080/07256868.2017.1386635
DO - 10.1080/07256868.2017.1386635
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0725-6868
VL - 38
SP - 708
EP - 721
JO - Journal of Intercultural Studies
JF - Journal of Intercultural Studies
IS - 6
ER -