HR 1200 Introduction to Global Citizenship

#9 What is Citizenship?
Friday, January 26th

Wayne Norman and Will Kymlicka “Citizenship” A Companion to Applied Ethics (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2003) Pp. 210-223.

1. How does citizenship – the determination of who is entitled to rule – implicitly depend
on a conception of justice?
2. Unpack the main theories of modern citizenship, focusing on the connection between
each’s account of citizen, the state/law, and society:
a) Liberal
b) Welfare-State Liberalism (Marshall)
c) Republican
d) Nationalistic
e) Multicultural
3. Explain how/why the dominant frameworks for understanding western liberal politics
at the end of the 20th century – John Rawls liberal theory of justice and the rise of
identity politics – gave rise to a “crisis of citizenship.”
4. Unpack T.H. Marshall’s tripartite conception of liberal citizenship. Distinguish civil,
political and social rights. Explain how each of these “waves” of citizenship was
emerged to solve problems produced by its preceding historical era.
5. How/why did neoliberalism challenge the welfare-state and its attendant conception
of social citizenship? In what ways are neoliberalism –market-based conceptions of
personal responsibility – in tension with the core ideals of citizenship?
6. What new set of concerns has been added to citizenship debates by its “fourth wave,”
cultural rights? How have multicultural rights or “differentiated citizenship” been
justified?
7. What type of groups rights, if any, are compatible with individual rights?