1st Edition

Globalisation and Citizenship The Transnational Challenge

Edited By Wayne Hudson, Steven Slaughter Copyright 2007
222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

This wide-ranging volume explores the impact of globalization upon citizenship, with a special focus on the transnational challenges that globalization poses. While there is much debate over the concept, globalization implies at least two distinct phenomena. First, it suggests that political, economic and social activities are becoming increasingly inter-regional or intercontinental in scope.... Read more

Introduction: Globalisation and citizenship
Steven Slaughter and Wayne Hudson

PART 1: Globalisation: challenges to traditional conceptions of citizenship

1. Theorising citizenship in a global age
Gerard Delanty

2. Globalisation and citizenship in Japan
John Clammer

3. Chinese citizenship and globalisation
Michael Keane

PART 2: Prospects for the development of global citizenship and democracy

4. Journalism and democracy across borders
John Keane

5. Global citizenship: a realist critique
Danilo Zolo

6. Cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitanism and republican citizenship
Steven Slaughter

7. Friends, citizens and globalisation
Haig Patapan

8. Particularism, human rights and the transnational challenge
Andrew Vincent

PART 3: New transnational citizenships and new civil society spaces

9. Transnational citizenship and direct action
April Carter

10. Social movement unionism
Andrew Vandenberg

11. Can corporations be citizens?
Jeremy Moon, Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten

12. Transnational activism and indigenous rights: Implications for national citizenship
Ravi De Costa

13. Globalization and practical utopianism
Wayne Hudson

Biography

Wayne Hudson is a Professor in the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Steven Slaughter is a Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.