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Book SynopsisThe 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
Trade ReviewHow 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. -- Shampa Biswas, Paul Garrett Professor, Whitman College
Many commentators have grappled with the impact of the multiple processes of globalization on the content and practices of citizenship. Few however have done this as incisively and innovatively as the contributors to the volume edited by Bashir and Gray. By bringing together superbly researched accounts from a diversity of disciplinary, historical, and regional perspectives, the collection provides a wealth of solid knowledge and sharp insights on the globalization and citizenship nexus. It is expected that the conceptual sophistication, empirical scope, and theoretical depth of the volume will make it invaluable for the teaching, explanation, and understanding of the complex and uneasy relationship between citizenship and globalization. -- Emilian Kavalski, Australian Catholic University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
