Citizenship as horizon |
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Authors: | Thomas Blom Hansen |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAtbhansen@stanford.edu |
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Abstract: | The idea of citizenship has today emerged as a global horizon under which a proliferating range of claims and demands for recognition, visibility, care, moral dignity, and inclusion are made. Initially a legal concept tied to self-determination and national sovereignty, the global human rights agenda has made citizenship less tied to the nation-state and instead a carrier of multiple cultural and political meanings and agendas from the global level to the most localized context. But can there be meaningful forms of citizenship that are not guaranteed by a sovereign state? |
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Keywords: | self-determination human rights global horizon nation-state |
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