The Perils of Global Citizenship

Bibliographic Data

ID4868950
AuthorsB Bowden (0000-0002-2544-0171, Brett Bowden, Political Science Program Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; tel.: ; fax, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume7
Issue3
Pages349-362
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1362102032000098913
OpenAlexW4256278557
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited29

The notion of global citizenship has been with us since around 450 BC when Socrates claimed that his country of origin was 'the world'. About 100 years later Diogenes the Cynic made a similar declaration as a 'citizen of the world'. These sentiments were echoed in the second century AD when Marcus Aurelius issued his famous declaration, 'my city and country so far as I am Antonius is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world'. More recently, in response to an article by Richard Rorty extolling the virtues of 'national pride' and 'a sense of shared national unity', Martha Nussbaum has likewise declared herself to be a 'citizen of the world'. Despite this long history of claims to global or world citizenship, it is argued here that the notion is not only problematic but also undesirable

Citizenship · Declaration · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Good citizenship · Political science · Politics · Pride · Sociology · SOCRATES · World history · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religious Education and Schools

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