Deconstructing Global Citizenship

Political, Cultural, and Ethical Perspectives

Contributions by Ahmed Bashir, Hassan Bashir, Phillip W. Gray, Alexandria Innes, Hamza Bin Jehangir, Tanya Kane, Bettina Koch, Christopher Lamont, Khalid Mir, Salma Mousa, Nancy Small, Rashmika Pandya, Francis Robinson, Sanee Sajjad, Sara Jordan, Robin Seelan, Yan I. Vaslavskiy, Andrej Zwitter Edited by Hassan Bashir, Phillip W. Gray

Publication date:

30 October 2015

Length of book:

342 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498502580

The success of individual nation states today is often measured in terms of their ability to benefit from and contribute to a host of global economic, political, socio-cultural, technological, and educational networks. This increased multifaceted international inter-dependence represents an intuitively contradictory and an immensely complex situation. This scenario requires that national governments, whose primary responsibility is towards their citizenry, must relinquish a degree of control over state borders to constantly developing trans and multinational regimes and institutions. Once state borders become permeable all sorts of issues related to rights earned or accrued due to membership of a national community come into question. Given that neither individuals nor states can eschew the influence of the growing interdependence, this new milieu is often described in terms of shrinking of the world into a global village. This reshaping of the world requires us to broaden our horizons and re-evaluate the manner in which we theorize human personhood within communal boundaries. It also demands us to acknowledge that the relative decline of Euro-American economic and political influence and the rise of Asian and Latin American states at the global level have created spaces in which a de-territorialized and a de-historicized notion of citizenship and state can now be explored. The essays in this volume represent diverse disciplinary, analytical, and methodological approaches to understand what the implications are of being a citizen of both a nation state and the world simultaneously. In sum, Deconstructing Global Citizenship explores the question of whether a synthesis of contradictory national and global tendencies in the term “global citizenship” is even possible, or if we are better served by fundamentally reconsidering our ideas of “citizenship,” “community,” and “politics.”

Introduction: Deconstructing Global Citizenship, Hassan Bashir & Phillip W. Gray
Chapter 1: The Modern State: Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Globalization, Francis Robinson
Chapter 2: (Re) Situating the West’s Cultural Others in International Relations Theory: Towards Developing Joint East-West Perspectives, Hassan Bashir & Hamza bin Jehangir
Chapter 3: The Limited Virtue of Tolerance in a Globalized World, Phillip W. Gray
Chapter 4: Civil Economy: Re-imagining an Ethical Economy and the Implications for Citizenship, Khalid Mir
Chapter 5: Citizenship in the Age of Global Surveillance: Some Observations on the Change in State-Citizen Relationship, Bettina Koch
Chapter 6: Deciding What to Do: A Universal Code of Ethics for Global Citizenship, Andrej Zwitter
Chapter 7: Citizenship, History and Culture: Derrida's Monolingualism of the Other in a Post 9/11 World, Rashmika Pandya
Chapter 8: Challenges of Religious Universality to Global Citizenship: Ethical Implications for Today, Robin Seelan
Chapter 9: Practice-Dependence, Cosmopolitanism and Conflict Avoidance, Kevin Gray
Chapter 10: Multiculturalism is Not Dead: Positive Experience of Multicultural Society Management in Russia, Yan I. Vaslavskiy
Chapter 11: Faith, Class and Citizenship in Conflict: The Christian Predicament in the Syrian and Egyptian Uprisings, Salma Mousa
Chapter 12: Human Security in a Globalized World: Reflections on Japan’s Official Development Assistance Programs, Alexandria Innes & Christopher Lamont
Chapter 13: Global Imperatives versus Local Needs: Analysis of Agricultural Development and Food Security in Rural South Asia, Sanee Sajjad
Chapter 14: Non-adherence to international IP protection standards in less developed countries: The case of Pakistan, Ahmed Bashir
Chapter 15: Mobilizing Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case for Democracy in the Thought of Kwame Nkrumah, Sara Jordan
Chapter 16: Education in a Globalized World: Education City and the Recalibration of Qatari Citizens, Tanya Kane
Chapter 17: Qatar’s Globalized Citizenry and the Majlis Culture: Insights from Habermas's Theory of the Development of a Public Sphere, Nancy Small

How does one live in an increasingly deterritorialized world that is still shaped by a state-centric conception of citizenship? Taking up this profound question from the perspective of the Global South, this volume is a timely meditation on the forms and functions of citizenship in a globalized world. Drawing from many different disciplinary perspectives and covering a wide range of empirical and geographical contexts, the essays in this collection provide some important insights into mutating conceptions of citizenship, new forms of subjectivity, and shifting articulations of justice in our contemporary world.