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This paper is based on the experiences of teaching gender and diversity applying a team based approach. The course 'gender, culture and everyday life' is taught as part of an online MA programme on Development Management to a group of international students from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The underlying thinking in the course is that the cultural diversity of the students in terms of nationalities and their different every-day life experiences providea good point of entry for discussing different understandings of gender roles and gender relations across cultures and social groups. In the course we try through the use of experience notes to encourage awareness of embodied and situated knowledge and to stimulate discussions that may move beyond general perceptions of gender relations in the field of development. We arguethat students seem to struggle with transferring such experience-based knowledge into overall discussions and thus also struggle with escaping the confines of dominant narratives. Through examples from the course, we reflect on the use of experience notes in teaching gender, the strengths and weaknesses of a team based approach to teaching gender and diversity, as well as on our own positioning as lecturers in the field of gender and development.

The so-called "refugee crisis" in Lesvos, Greece provides a poignant example of situated, local suffering that has called for the coordination of global resources to provide relief. Some of the first to respond were local and international Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity (CIGS). While a growing role for CIGS has been interpreted as a call for more global involvement, arguments for the increased localization of relief efforts suggest the need for aid agents to maintain a reflexive awareness of the potential for an influx of outside assistance to disempower those most affected. We argue that barriers to implementing the localization of humanitarian aid can be better understood by positioning this localization alongside theories of global solidarity. This paper pairs theoretical contributions from the fields of moral and political philosophy with an analysis of interview material gathered in Lesvos between 2015 and 2019. Our goal is to use narratives of conflicting interests in Lesvos to explore conceptual distinctions concerning solidarity and emphasize the importance of the localization of global solidarity in humanitarian aid. We conclude that while global solidarity represents a demanding effort to identify with distant others and provide aid, the intensity and transformative potential of the process of "making the crisis one's own" through solidary engagement can overshadow the importance of local ownership of crisis management.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I -- 1 The Articles of Faith of Citizen Aid Actors - between Dreams and Realities -- 2 Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity (CIGS) as New Development Actors in Norway - An Exploration of How and Why They Emerge -- 3 Bittersweet - Exploring Interactions between NGDOs and PDIs in the Netherlands -- 4 The Multiple Triggers and Distinguishing Features of Canadian Citizen Aid Initiatives -- 5 Perpetual Effervescence? The Life Trajectories of American Grassroots International NGOs -- 6 The Founder-Syndrome -- Explaining the Boundaries of Financial Expansion of Small-Scale Development Initiatives -- Part II -- 7 Brokering as a Balancing Act: Local Coordinators in Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity -- 8 Citizen Aid Celebrities? The Role of Charismatic Founders -- 9 Citizen Initiatives for Global Solidarity (CIGS), Frontier Africans, and Experiences of Translocal Networking -- 10 Understanding Sustainable Exit Strategies of Voluntary Development Organisations. Amical Break-Up or Messy Divorce? -- 11 Citizen Initiatives in Humanitarian Aid: Lesvos, Greece as a Case in Bottom-Up Humanitarian Assistance Mobilization -- 12 Professionalized Humanitarianism and the Essentialization of Victimhood -- Index.

"This edited volume discusses the rise, positioning and role of small-scale, voluntary development organisations in the Global North. This book presents and reflects upon unique data and analyses of a growing global community of researchers involved in this field of study located in a diverse set of countries in the Global North and South. This book presents a multi-cited perspective on this alternative development actor. The first part of the book starts from a northern perspective and from an analysis of how and why citizens actively engage in the field of international development. Starting from this understanding of this particular development actor, the second part will delve into the role of these actors in the global south, particularly related to topics as partnerships, embeddedness, legitimacy, accountability, exit strategies, sustainability and solidarity; all themes central to debates in the field of development. Through examples from different countries in the Global South, part 2 explores these themes from different standpoints and thus also provides the reader with thick descriptions"--