A Critical Reading of Global Citizenship Education: Colonial Continuities and Feminist Interventions

Sandra Altenberger: Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Global Citizenship Education. Eine postkolonial-feministische Subjektkartographie. transcript 2025

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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2026.456

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Education, Deconstruction, Discourse, Feminism, Postcolonialism

Abstract

This review examines Sandra Altenberger's monograph “Gender Justice and Global Citizenship Education: A Postcolonial Feminist Subject Cartography”. It provides an overview of the book's theoretical foundations, methodological approaches, and key findings, situating the work within current scholarly debates. Drawing on a postcolonial feminist perspective, Altenberger investigates the extent to which colonial patterns of thought continue to shape concepts of Global Citizenship Education (GCE). Her central research question addresses how gendered subject positions are discursively produced within UNESCO's conceptualizations of GCE and how these processes are linked to the reproduction of colonial power relations. The study aims to render these dynamics visible and subject them to critical reflection while at the same time preserving the emancipatory potential of GCE. To this end, Altenberger seeks to unsettle established meanings and open up new spaces for thought and action.

Author Biography

Jutta Bichl, University of Innsbruck

Jutta Olivia Bichl is a doctoral researcher at the Doctoral College “Gender and Gender Relations in Transformation” at the University of Innsbruck, where she began her PhD in political science in 2025. Her research project critically examines the emergence and framing of Feminist Foreign Policy, exploring how the policy formation intersects with global power structures and political interests within state-level policy making. Her research aligns with broader discussions on the role of women and gender in peacebuilding and conflict resolution, situating feminist foreign policy within the wider context of gendered power relations and global governance.

References

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (2012): An aesthetic education in the era of globalization. Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (2008): Righting Wrongs. Unrecht richten [Übersetzung von Finck, Sonja/Keim, Janet]. Zürich, Berlin: diaphanes.

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2026-08-10

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Bichl, J. (2026). A Critical Reading of Global Citizenship Education: Colonial Continuities and Feminist Interventions: Sandra Altenberger: Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Global Citizenship Education. Eine postkolonial-feministische Subjektkartographie. transcript 2025. Open Gender Journal, 10. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2026.456

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Vol. 10 (2026): Open Gender Journal

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