Global

Citizenship
Michelle P. Domingo

SS 105 Contemporary World

Global Citizenship
- the idea that all people have rights and
civic responsibilities that come with being a member of
the world, with whole-world philosophy and sensibilities,
rather than as a citizen of a particular nation or place.

- membership in a broader class: "humanity".

- In general usage, the term may have much the same

meaning as "world citizen" or cosmopolitan.
Aspects
• Geography, sovereignty, and citizenship
• At the same time that globalization is reducing the importance of
nation-states, the idea of global citizenship may require a redefinition
of ties between civic engagement and geography. Face-to-face
town hall meetings seem increasingly supplanted by electronic "town
halls" not limited by space and time. Absentee ballots opened the
way for expatriates to vote while living in another country; the
Internet may carry this several steps further. Another interpretation
given by several scholars of the changing configurations of citizenship
due to globalization is the possibility that citizenship becomes a
changed institution; even if situated within territorial boundaries that
are national, if the meaning of the national itself has changed, then
the meaning of being a citizen of that nation changes.
 Philosophy

• Global citizenship, in some contexts, may refer to a brand of

ethics or political philosophy in which it is proposed that the core
social, political, economic and environmental realities of the
world today should be addressed at all levels—by individuals, civil
society organizations, communities and nation states—through a
global lens.

• Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412 B.C.)

"I am a citizen of the world”

A Sanskrit term, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

"the world is one family“
• Albert Einstein
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of
mankind”.

Kaniyan Poongundran - wrote in Purananuru

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.“

Thomas Paine
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Bahá'í faith
"The Earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
Global Citizen
• In general, a world citizen is a person who places global
citizenship above any nationalistic or local identities and
relationships.

“There is an emerging world community to which

we all belong!”
 What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen?
1. RECOGNIZE THE GLOBAL PART OF WHO YOU ARE

2. EXPAND YOUR DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY

3. DISCOVER THE VALUES OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY

4. BECOME AWARE OF GLOBAL POLICIES AND PROGRAMS

5. ENGAGE WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE TRYING TO

GOVERN THE WORLD
What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen?

6. PARTICIPATE IN AN ADVOCACY EFFORT FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

7. HELP ENSURE YOUR COUNTRY’S FOREIGN POLICY PROMOTES

GLOBAL VALUES

8. PARTICIPATE IN ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO BUILD WORLD

COMMUNITY

9. NURTURE A LIFESTYLE THAT SUPPORTS SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL

DEVELOPMENT

10. SUPPORT WORLD ART, MUSIC, AND CULTURE

Global Citizen’s Initiative
“global citizen is someone who identifies with being part of an emerging
world community and whose actions contribute to building this
community’s values and practices.”

Basic Assumptions:

• (a) that there is such a thing as an emerging world community with

which people can identify; and

• (b) that such a community has a nascent set of values and practices.
Mundialization
• Philosophically, mundialization (French, mondialisation)
is seen as a response to globalization’s "dehumanisation
through planetarisation"

• to refer to the act of a city or a local authority declaring

itself a "world citizen" city, by voting a charter stating its
awareness of global problems and its sense of shared
responsibility.
• The concept was promoted by the self-declared World
Citizen Garry Davis in 1949, as a logical extension of the
idea of individuals declaring themselves world citizens,
and promoted by Robert Sarrazac, a former leader of the
French Resistance who created the Human Front of World
Citizens in 1945.
• The first city to be officially mundialised was the small
French city of Cahors (only 20,000 in 2006), the capital city
of the Département of Lot in central France, on 20 July
1949.
• To date, more than 1000 cities and towns have declared
themselves World cities, including Beverly Hills,
Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto,
Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nivelles, and Königswinter.
Thank You and Keep Safe!