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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 – – – – 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