ch 1.2: why study globalization Flashcards
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WHY STUDY GLOBALIZATION
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
underlines equality and shared responsibility for each other, as well as responsibility for the well-being of future generations.
Global citizenship
As far back as the year ________, ________________ already proclaimed his land of origin to be the world. A century later, ________________ declared himself a citizen of the world
As far back as the year 450, Socrates already proclaimed his land of origin to be the world. A century later, Diogenes declared himself a citizen of the world
The term citizenship not only refers to the legal relationship between citizen and state, which comprises _________ and _________________, but also to:
(expectations regarding) various forms of ___________________________.
The term citizenship not only refers to the legal relationship between citizen and state, which comprises rights and obligations, but also to:
(expectations regarding) various forms of social participations.
He deemed citizenship a virtue (virtus’), as did?
Roman times — Cicero as did Robespierre
entails the abandonment of the parochial way of thinking. introducing a reciprocity in the form of awareness of mutual dependency and allowing individual citizens take centre stage.
Global citizenship
He considered active participation in the political debate essential, (i.e. apart from fulfilling rights and obligations, active political participation is also part of citizenship.)
Ancient Greece — Aristotle
also deemed citizenship a virtue (Dunn, 2005).
French revolution — Robespierre
a citizen who actively engages with society
le citoyen
The ‘____________________________________________________________’ from 1789 even distinguished: a citizen who actively engages with society and the man who assumes a passive attitude in society (Schinkel, 2008).
Declaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen
the man who assumes a passive attitude in society (Schinkel, 2008).
l’homme
DIMENSION OF CITIZENSHIP
- FORMAL DIMENSION OF CITIZENSHIP
- MORAL DIMENSION OF CITIZENSHIP
The legal relationship between citizen and state
FORMAL DIMENSION OF CITIZENSHIP
This dimension is not a new one. References to the moral aspects of citizenship date as far back as the ancient Greeks and Romans.
MORAL DIMENSION OF CITIZENSHIP
The participation dimension of citizenship
MORAL DIMENSION OF CITIZENSHIP
The realization of the need to also effect change over here is the result of newfound insights into how the development of poor countries is slowed down by the privileged position occupied by rich countries (in global trade markets, for example), or of the understanding that the wealth of the rich is enabled by disadvantaging others.
RESPONSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL CITIZEN
The fact that rich countries and rich people also contribute to poverty enduring elsewhere means that by changing their policy they can remove obstacles standing in the way of the development of the underprivileged. This mutual dependency ensues from the understanding that matters such as sustainability, a stable climate, security and proper and fair management of scarce resources (water. raw materials, agricultural land) can only be governed well on a global scale.
RESPONSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL CITIZEN
Koenders claimed that solutions to issues in the area of poverty, the environment, lack of access to health care, education, water, and security were increasingly to be found on a global level. International cooperation was considered indispensable in solving these issues (DGIS, 2009).
RESPONSIBILITY OF A GLOBAL CITIZEN
GLOBALISM
(enumerate)
- Timing of the events
- Economic factors
- Democracy, politics and ideology
- Space(s) of the events
- Ethics and social justice
- Cultural practices
- Social structures
(globalism affects these(?))
implies the growth of a world market, increasingly penetrating and dominating the “national” economies, which in the process are bound to lose some of their “nationness”. This means dominance of the world market over structures of local production, as well as the increasing prevalence of Western-type consumerism.
Globalism
can be defined as programmatic globalization, the vision of a borderless world.
Globalism
GLOBALIZATION PHENOMENA
(enumerate)
- The emergence of a globalized economy—involving new systems of production, finance and consumption and worldwide economic integration.
- New transnational or global cultural patterns, practices and flows, and the idea of global culture(s)
- Global political processes—the rise of new transnational institutions, and concomitantly, the spread of global governance and authority structures of diverse sorts:
- The unprecedented multidirectional movement of peoples around the world—involving new patterns of transnational migration, identities and communities.
- New social hierarchies, forms of inequality, and relations of domination around the world and in the global system as a whole.
New transnational or global cultural patterns, practices and flows, and the idea of global culture(s)
GLOBALIZATION PHENOMENA
The emergence of a globalized economy—involving new systems of production, finance and consumption and worldwide economic integration.
GLOBALIZATION PHENOMENA