Transcript Global Citizenship

Global Citizenship
Reading:
• Valentine Ch 9 pp. 321-332
Global Citizenship
• Traditional to associate citizenship with
nation
• Globalization is changing things
– Politics, culture, economy no longer stop at the
national border
Deterritorialization
• International regimes of governance
developing which challenge the sovereignty
of the state:
– UN, WTO
– NAFTA, NATO, NAFO
Forms of Global Citizenship
• Forms of global citizenship emerging
around
– Technology
– Ecology
– others?
Technological Citizenship
• Information technology creating
disembodied social networks
• People connecting globally and nonnationally through technology
• Content and access on Internet largely
unregulated
Technological Citizenship
• Some countries try to restrict access to the
Internet
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China
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Iraq
Technological Citizenship
• National citizenship taking to cyberspace
– disseminate government information via Web
– Government of Canada converting all forms to
web format
Technological Citizenship
• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
taking to the web to organize their activities
– Mexico’s rebel Zapatistas
– Serbians opposed to NATO bombing
Technological
Citizenship
• International political
movements being
organized via Internet
– anti-WTO protests
– Protests against the new
Iraq war
Toronto
• St Clair Ave W
Lexington MA
London UK
Palo Alto CA
Montréal
San Francisco
San Francisco
• San Francisco,
October 2002
Germany
Halifax 2002
Kipling Ave, Dec 2002
• Use of
computers to
generate
protest media
Technological Citizenship
• International crime & terrorism using the
Internet
– possibility of cyber-attacks
– use of web for communications
– internet scams
Technological Citizenship
• Seems to flourish best in affluent
communities with access to technology
• Most internet music copyright violations
associated with university students
– music consumers with available time and T1
internet access
Ecological Citizenship
• Realization that ecological issues are global
in scale
• Emergence of some international
arrangements to deal with ecological issues
– UN Earth Summits
– CITES, Kyoto Accord
Ecological Citizenship
• Strong role played by NGOs
– International NGOs: Greenpeace, IFAW,
– National or Local NGOs: Friends of the Earth,
Sierra Club
• Greenpeace: “act locally, think globally”
World Economic Forum protests
Scotland
Ecological Citizenship
• Requires technological access
and affluence?
– Not always, but it helps
Odds & Ends
• Next week:
– no classes, office hours continue
• 31 March
– Exam preparation
– Assignment #2 returned