Challenging Citizenship

Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age
Herausgeber: Tan, Sor-Hoon

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the last decade 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 the present reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780754643678
• ISBN-10: 0754643670
• Artikelnr.: 57052904

Autorenporträt

Sor-hoon Tan is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: globalization and citizenship, Sor-hoon Tan
Migration and cultural diversity: implications for national and global citizenship, April Carter
A refugee and a citizen of the world, C.L. Ten
Justice for migrant workers? foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and Singapore, Daniel A. Bell
The globalization of citizenship, Barry Hindess
Active citizens or an inert people?, James E. Tiles
Socratic citizenship: the limits of deliberative democracy, Catherine Audard
Liberalism, identity, minority rights, Alan Montefiore
Models of multicultural citizenship: comparing Asia and the West, Will Kymlicka
Montaigne's cannibals and multiculturalism, Cecilia Wee
Citizenship and cultural equality, Baogang He
On the Confucian idea of citizenship, A.T. Nuyen
Exemplary world citizens as civilized local communicators: politics and culture in the global aspirations of Confucianism, Sor-hoon Tan
Conclusion: meeting challenges, Sor-hoon Tan
Index.