Citizenship in a Globalised World
What does it mean to be a citizen of a democracy today? This book challenges us to re-evaluate and ultimately reorient our state-based conception of democratic citizenship in order to meaningfully account for the context in which it is lived: a globalised, deeply interconnected, and deeply unjust world.
Hobden argues for a new conception of citizenship that is state-based, but globally oriented. The book presents a new account of collective responsibility that includes responsibility for a wider range of collective outcomes. Drawing upon this account, Hobden argues that citizens can be held collectively morally responsible for the acts of their state, both domestically and internationally.
The book explores how this conception of citizenship, with its attendant collective responsibility, can speak to citizens of today: those experiencing the costs of inequality and oppression; those living under semi- and newly democratic regimes; and those living as non-citizen residents. It encourages an active citizenship and presents innovative channels of participation, with discussions on civic education in the media and political consumerism.
Offering a new lens on citizenship in a global context, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of political theory, global justice, citizenship, democratic theory, and collective responsibility.
Christine Hobden is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa and an Iso Lomso Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study. From May 2021, she will be a Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Public Governance at the Wits School of Governance. She is a political theorist whose research focuses on citizenship, international justice, and collective responsibility.
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Citizenship in a Globalised World
Christine Hobden
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Names: Hobden, Christine Louise, 1987- author.
Title: Citizenship in the globalized world / Christine Hobden.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020052373 (print) | LCCN 2020052374 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367179687 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429058707 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World citizenship. | Globalization.
Classification: LCC JZ1320.4 .H63 2021 (print) |
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For my grandmothers, Angela and Doreen.
Contents
PART I
The concepts: states, citizens, and global injustice
This project began first as a DPhil undertaken at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. The acknowledgements found within that thesis speak to the many people who supported the work in that first instantiation. My gratitude bears repeating here, in particular to the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan and the Society for Applied Philosophy for funding my doctoral study, and to David Miller and Ccile Fabre for their generous supervision. I am also greatful to my DPhil examiners, Simon Caney and Avia Pasternak, for their careful reading and advice on how to take this project forward.
The project has substantially evolved since its DPhil origins and thanks are owed to the many people and places that have afforded this intellectual space and growth. First, to the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies at the European University Institute, where the book proposal was developed: for the support of my mentor, Rainer Baubck, the Max Weber team, and my many wonderful colleagues there. I am grateful to my current department, Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare, for so generously supporting my research despite many competing pressures. I am incredibly grateful for the ways my thought has been challenged and shaped by the context and thinking of those I encounter within this space. Thanks too to the Govan Mbeki Research Centre for support for this project through a number of research grants. One of these grants supported a valuable short research visit to the Princeton Centre for Human Values in early 2019. Thanks to Anna Stilz and the Princeton political theory community for so generously hosting me and engaging with this work, and to Elizabeth Baisley for the many hours of writing together, there and in virtual community. Special thanks are also owed to the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study for the wonderful environment in which much of the writing of this manuscript was finally done.
The anticipated book manuscript workshop was not able to take place following COVID-19 lockdowns. I would like nevertheless to thank those who had agreed to participate, many of whom generously still took time to send comments and engage in online discussions: Rutger Birnie, Stephanie Collins, Amy Hondo, Gugu Ndlazi, Andrew Mason, Uchenna Okeja, Laurence Piper, John Sanni, Ashwini Vasanthakumar, and Samantha Vice. I would also like to thank participants of the many conferences and seminars where earlier versions of this work were presented; the intellectual rigour and generosity displayed in these settings contributed significantly to the development of these ideas.
