Teaching About the Alienated Global “Other”: Learning as “Responding to” and “Relating With”

• In Event: Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Traveling the Globe and Relating to the Other: International Curriculum in Time and Space

Abstract

In this paper, I take up the issue of globalization and global “interconnectedness” by complicating the “nodes” of globalized connection that is, according to Marx (1844), more about alienation. To work towards global justice and global citizenship, I argue we have to turn these “nodes” of alienation into connection. In this globalized production and consumption era, the global “other” is the alienated worker. In order to build community with the global “other,” I take up and complicate the “language of responsibility” that Biesta (2004) calls for. I argue an ethical and political community with the “other” should also be a “relating with,” for which we need compassion that Chinnery (2006) argues for, and loving perception that Lugones (1987) calls for.

Author

• Xiuying Sophy Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign