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TCWD Week 17- The Global Citizenship
English 1 (Eng1)
Our Lady of Fatima University
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ADVANCING
Acting as Global Citizens
The world citizen was typically an intellectual, who travelled widely, met and corresponded with intellectuals in many countries and advanced cosmopolitan views.
Since 1945, the global citizen is usually pictured as the activist on transnational social movements.
The idea that travelling is an expression of cosmopolitanism is indeed debatable.
Mass tourism, which often shields people from the society they are visiting, has nothing to do with increasing international understanding and may hay harmful effects on the environment and local culture.
However, there are travels that are seen as means of promoting international understanding like exchanges between schoolchildren,
The image of wandering scholar is still part of a cosmopolitan view of the world of learning.
It is also encouraged by governments to promote friendly relations between countries.
In the beginning of the 21st century, there was the development of informal networks and formal transnational organizations.
These organizations pursue professional or social interests that have become an important feature of international politics.
The existence of these organizations can be interpreted as the creation of civil global society.
The existence of transnational associations does not necessarily mean that those involved are acting as global citizens because in many cases, they are basically promoting their own particular concerns.
Those who belong to these organizations meet in international conferences to share their ideas and to call for states and international law to respect their rights to copyright and to an income from their writing.
Campaigning to transnational organizations is committed to global causes.
The number and importance of voluntary bodies opposing oppression, or expressing practical solidarity with those suffering in other parts of the world also grew significantly in the 20th century.
Many people around the world are making links across national frontiers to demonstrate support for cosmopolitan ideals.
Transnational organizations like Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Greenpeace cite discussions on global citizenship.
Transnational movements usually involve political lobbying and protest.
Sometimes, they encompass more extreme form of resistance.
They also depend on volunteers who offer direct assistance to those who are suffering from abuse, poverty, war, among others.
Global Civil Society
- The concept of civil society has become central to social theory since the 19809s when dissident intellectuals in Eastern Europe looked to social networks initiated from below to provide a sphere of independence from the state and a basis for resistance.
- The existence of autonomous social groups and institutions has been seen as essential to democratization both in remaining communist regimes such as China and in other authoritarian states.
- Democratic theorists have argued that civil society is essential to liberal democracies as a barrier to an encroaching state
- Participation in voluntary bodies provides a political education and promotes responsible citizenship.
- Hegel and Marx conceptualized civil society as the sphere defined by the market economy, and its resulting individualism and socially divisive effects.
- But most theorists of civil society see it as distinct from both the state and the economy.
- Civil society also suggests very informal links – whether between neighbors or fellow enthusiasts of a particular hobby.
TCWD Week 17- The Global Citizenship
Course: English 1 (Eng1)
University: Our Lady of Fatima University
