The practice of global citizenship
By: Luis Cabrera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521199360; 9780521128100
Subjects: Human rights; Cosmopolitanism; World citizenship
Description: "In this novel account of global citizenship, Luis Cabrera argues that all individuals have a global duty to contribute directly to human rights protections and to promote rights-enhancing political integration between states. The Practice of Global Citizenship blends careful moral argument with compelling narratives from field research among unauthorized immigrants, activists seeking to protect their rights, and the 'Minuteman' activists striving to keep them out. Immigrant-rights activists, especially those conducting humanitarian patrols for border-crossers stranded in the brutal Arizona desert, are shown as embodying aspects of global citizenship. Unauthorized immigrants themselves are shown to be enacting a form of global 'civil' disobedience, claiming the economic rights central to the emerging global normative charter, while challenging the restrictive membership regimes that are the norm in the current global system. Cabrera also examines the European Union, seeing it as a crucial laboratory for studying the challenges inherent in expanding citizen membership"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Theoretical Concerns: 1. Global citizenship as individual cosmopolitanism; 2. Rights, duties and global institutions; 3. Defining and distributing duties; title: Part II. Global Citizenship in Practice: 4. Minutemen and desert samaritans: citizenship practice in conflict; 5. Mobile global citizens; 6. Global citizen duties within less-affluent states; title: Part III. Advocacy and Institutions: 7. Regional citizenship and global citizenship; 8. Advocacy duties and global democracy; 9. Education and motivation for global citizenship; title: Conclusion: the practice of good citizenship.