Global

Citizenship
Unit VII
Learning Objectives:
• Define global citizenship
• Distinguish the salient features of global citizenship
• Relates global citizenship with global economy and governance
• Articulate a personal definition of global citizenship
 Global Citizenship as
Defined
• The idea that, as people, we are all
citizens of the globe who have an
equal responsibility for what
happens on, and to our world.

• As a moral and ethical disposition

that can guide the understanding
of individuals or groups of local and
global contexts, and remind them of
their relative responsibilities within
various communities.
Salient Features of Global
Citizenship
1. Global citizenship as a choice
2. Global citizenship as self-awareness
and awareness of others
3. Global citizenship as they practice
cultural
4. Global citizenship as the cultivation
of principled decision making
5. Global citizenship as participation in
the social and political life of one’s
community
Global Citizenhsip and Globalization
• Global Citizenship and Globalization Global
citizenship does not automatically entail a single
attitude and a particular value with globalization.
• They are bound to be multiple futures for multiple
globalizations.
• The opponents of globalization blame either
Westernization or global capitalism.
Global Citizenship and Global Economy
• There are three approaches to global economic
resistance. Trade protectionism involves the
systematic government intervention in foreign trade
through tariffs and nontariff barriers in order to
encourage domestic producers and deter their
foreign competitors.

• Fair trade aims at a moral and equitable global

economic system in which, for instance, price is not
set by the market; instead, it is negotiated
transparently by both producers and consumers.
Global Citizenship and Global
Governance
• All political organizations, at different levels, should be more accountable
for their actions because they are now surrounded by an“ocean of opacity”.
• This movement also has the potential to emerge as the new public sphere,
which may uphold progressive values such as autonomy, democracy,
peace, ecological sustainability, and social justice.
• The impetus for such a movement comes from individuals, groups and
organizations which are oppressed (i.e., self-perception) by globalization
from above (neoliberal economic systems or aggressively expanding
nations and corporations). They seek a more democratic process of
globalization.
• The World Social Forum (WSF) is centered on addressing the lack of
democracy in economic and political affairs.
• A significant influence on WSF has been that of cyberactivism, which is
based on the “cultural logic of networking” and “virtual movements”, such
as Global Huaren
 Given that there is no world government, the idea of global
citizenship demands the creation of rights and obligations.
However, fulfilling the promises of globalization and the solution
to the problems of the contemporary world does not lie on single
entity or individual, but on citizens, the community, and the
different organization in societies.

—Global Citizenship
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