The Dynamics of Citizenship in the Post-Political World

Workshops

HUMAN RIGHTS AND EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP has as its point of departure the observation that social and political space is no longer entirely mapped in terms of territorial places and borders. What is characteristic of our globalizing era is the growth of problems that transgress traditional territorial boundaries and which are no longer addressed by nation-states alone. At the same time, there is wide agreement that international organizations suffer from a “democratic deficit” and that prospects for democracy beyond the state need to be addressed in this context. The gap between governance as effective and efficient collective action problem-solving and governance as the democratic legitimation of policy-making has fueled the debate about making global governance institutions more democratic by strengthening their legitimacy. Governance has become a hosting metaphor identifying both state and non-state actors, participating as mobilizing agents with the attempt to broadening and deepening policy understanding beyond the nation-state.

This workshop asks questions about what role citizens play in this endeavor. What roles can and should citizens play in these multilevel governance structures? And what do we mean by a multiple citizenship in this context? Papers may concern different approaches to global democracy (e.g., cosmopolitan, transnational, or deliberative democracy) and global justice; the relationship between citizenship rights and human rights; the problems of citizenship and the boundaries of demoi in a globalized and unequal world; the role of human rights in transnational or global democracy. As political actors in global and regional governance, citizens engage both as “representatives” of states and as representatives of non-state organizations. Papers are also welcome that deal with the role of transnational actors and civil society organizations in the democratization beyond the nation-state.

Workshop organizers:

PhD and Journal Editor Eva Erman, Stockholm University (for information and questions on the workshop), and Professor Andreas Follesdal, University of Oslo.

 

Workshops

• Citizenship Gaps »

• Post-Political Participation »

• Human Rights and European and Global Citizenship

• Global Economy and Citizenship »

• Citizenship as New Notions of Belonging and Identity »

Last update: Maj 14, 2010