Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age

by Tan,Sor-hoon; Tan,Sor-hoon

• ISBN13: 9780754643678
• ISBN10: 0754643670
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established understandings and practices of citizenship, and that intellectual work is required to fashion models of citizenship better suited to present problems and realities. In particular, this volume emphasizes the pluralization of identities and communities within states brought about by such forces as mass immigration, global communication, substate regionalism and more generally the fragmentation of modern notions of nation. The challenge is to devise forms of democracy and political identity adequate to these 'globalized' conditions. Ideally suited to anyone interested in globalization, cultural diversity and citizenship.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Introduction: Globalization and Citizenship	1	(14)
Sor-hoon Tan
2 Migration and Cultural Diversity: Implications for National and Global Citizenship
April Carter	15	(16)
3 A Refugee and a Citizen of the World
C.L. Ten	31	(10)
4 Justice for Migrant Workers? Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore
Daniel A. Bell	41	(22)
5 The Globalization of Citizenship
Barry Hindess	63	(12)
6 Active Citizens or an Inert People?
James E. Tiles	75	(14)
7 Socratic Citizenship: The Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Catherine Audard	89	(9)
8 Liberalism, Identity, Minority Rights
Alan Montefiore	98	(12)
9 Models of Multicultural Citizenship: Comparing Asia and the West
Will Kymlicka	110	(27)
10 Montaigne's Cannibals and Multiculturalism
Cecilia Wee	137	(14)
11 Citizenship and Cultural Equality
Baogang He	151	(18)
12 On the Confucian Idea of Citizenship
A.T. Nu yen	169	(14)
13 Exemplary World Citizens as Civilized Local Communicators: Politics and Culture in the Global Aspirations of Confucianism
Sor-hoon Tan	183	(14)
14 Conclusion: Meeting Challenges	197	(2)
Sor-hoon Tan
Index	199