The impact of globalization on citizenship: decline or renaissance?

ID:	HARP-353
Title:	The impact of globalization on citizenship: decline or renaissance?
Source:	Journal of Canadian Studies , v.36(1) Spr’01 pg 116-140
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Year:	2001
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Keywords:	Canada, citizenship, globalization, governance, human rights, informationization, politics, civil and political rights, assembly and association
Abstract:	This article contests two commonly held views about politics and citizenship: (1) that politics and citizenship are only possible within the boundaries of the state; (2) that economic globalization erodes the significance of the state, thereby diminishing the scope of politics and citizen activity. The very processes and means of communicating that are making economic globalization possible are making globalization contestable. Politics and citizenship, like the market, have burst the borders of the nation-state. Information and communication technologies (ICTs), primarily the Internet, have facilitated new forms of political expression and connection among groups and the growth of new public spaces. Canadians are among the most active users of ICTs in the creation of new public spaces and possibilities of citizen engagement that challenge the top-down, state-driven processes of international governance and multilateralism.
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