3. AGENDA
• COURSE
INTRODUCTION
• FREEWRITE
• WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP?
• COSMOPOLITANISM:
A BRIEF HISTORY
• GLOBALIZATION: PAST
AND FUTURE
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4. ABOUT ME
• Born in Calgary, lived in Toronto since 2012
• Sociology PhD, University of Toronto
• studies markets and diaspora-making
• Professional Cooking diploma, SAIT
• gardens, cooks, eats
5. LEARNING
OBJECTIVE
S
Upon completing this course,
students will be able to do the
following:
• Reflect critically about one’s
role as a global citizen in
personal and professional life
• Analyze the ways we come to
understand the world, our
perceptions of ourselves and
others
• Critically analyze social issues
considering different
perspectives and historical
roots
• Develop recommendations for
a social action plan
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Learning
Outcomes
7. POLICI
ES
COMMUNICATIONS
I will respond to email within 48 hours (but I don’t
check email after 8 pm)
Please use my.centennialcollege.ca address
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Plagiarism will be investigated and referred to the
Chair’s office
GROUP WORK
Students are accountable for their individual
contributions to group work. Group conflicts should
be brought to my attention if they can’t be resolved
internally.
LATE/MISSED ASSIGNMENTS
Arrange extensions in advance
Documentation required for any missed assessments
9. Freewrite
• Freewriting is unstructured reflective writing
to help you work out your unfiltered
thoughts on a topic.
• Take 5 minutes to respond to the prompts
below. Write in whichever language you are
most comfortable. Spelling, grammar, and
coherence don’t matter. The only rules are
DO NOT STOP WRITING and DO NOT CROSS
ANYTHING OUT
PROMPTS:
1) What’s the importance of global
citizenship to me?
2) What do I do that makes me a good global
citizen?
11. Citizenship
• Citizenship = National Identity.
• Acknowledgement of belonging to a particular country.
• Belonging carries citizenship
• Set of rights and responsibilities.
How are Canadians recognized?
What are the Rights
and Responsibilities
of a Canadian citizen?
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Rights and
Responsibilities
Rights:
• Voting
• Freedom of conscience and
religion
• Freedom of thought, belief,
opinion, and expression
• Freedom of peaceful assembly
• Freedom of association
Responsibilities:
• Voting
• Obeying the law
• Taking responsibility for oneself
and one’s family
• Protecting the nation’s heritage
and environment
• Defending Canada
13. How is a global citizen different from a national
citizen?
• Who recognizes global citizens, and how?
• What are the rights and responsibilities of
global citizenship?
Rights and
Responsibilities
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14. Cosmopolitanism
• Global citizenship traced to
cosmopolitanism.
• From Ancient Greek:
Kosmos (world/universe) +
Polites (citizen)
• Rejects local attachments & ideas
• Associated with travel, cultural
curiosity, syncretism
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15. Diogenes (412-323 BCE)
• Greek philosopher, founder of
Cynicism
• Born in Sinope (Turkey), exiled for
counterfeiting
• Shunned all possessions, lived in a
large clay pot in the marketplace of
ancient Athens.
• Used this lifestyle to criticize
“decadent”, “corrupt” values of
Athens
• Self-declared “citizen of the world.”
Alexander and Diogenes|Gaetano Gandolfi, 1792 – Public
16. Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
“Cosmopolitans… regard all the
peoples of the earth as so many
branches of a single family, and
the universe as a state, of which
they, with innumerable other
rational beings, are citizens,
promoting together under the
general laws of nature the
perfection of the whole, while
each in his own fashion is busy
about his own well-being”
(qt. in Appiah, 2006, p. xv).
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17. Immanuel Kant (1724 –
1809)
• 18th century German philosopher, argued
that all human beings have ‘intrinsic worth’
and a ‘dignity’ that must be respected.
• The notion of universal hospitality as a right
– “the right of a stranger not to be treated as
an enemy.”
• It is a right we have as fellow inhabitants of
the earth.
• Hospitality requires us to be kind and
accommodating towards strangers.
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18. Discussion
In groups of 3 – 4, discuss the slogan “Think globally, act
locally”
What does this statement mean? How is it similar or
different from the philosophy of Diogenes? Of Voltaire?
Of Kant?
Are there times where you have thought globally and acted
locally? Be prepared to present your experiences to the
class.
19. • Global Citizenship is not a new concept.
• It comes from a long tradition of
thinkers dating back as far as the 4th
century BCE.
• Revival and return to the concept of
global citizenship, tied to phenomenon
of globalization.
GLOBAL Citizenship
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22. Temperature
Check Line up according to your response to the
statements below. If you STRONGLY AGREE,
stand to the right; if you STRONGLY
DISAGREE, stand to the left. If you’re unsure,
stand in the middle.
Overall, my life is better for living in a
globalized world.
Overall, globalization makes the world a
better place.
23. Globalization
• Globalization refers to the
increasing integration of
nations’ economies, trade,
products, ideas, norms, and
cultures.
• Movement of …
• Transportation
• Telecommunications
• People
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24. 3 waves of
globalization
1870-1920
European
empires colonize
Americas/
Africa/
Asia
1945-1980s
Post WW2
decolonization
Cold War
Non-Aligned
Movement
1994
–
2020?
Collapse of USSR
– US as global
superpower
WTO & Global
trade Blocs
Internet & digital
revolution
25.
26.
27. Global Citizenship in an era
of Globalization
• Globalization has benefited our lives,
however no guarantee that it will
improve our lives
• In subsequent units, we will explore
some of the human, environmental,
and economic costs of our increasingly
interconnected world.
• Globalization contains no moral
imperative to deal with societal issues
• Global citizenship, on the other hand,
requires an ethical and moral
commitment to principles of fairness
and justice.
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Editor's Notes
At its most basic level, Global Citizenship is the idea that we belong to a shared community of human beings.
This means that we think of ourselves not strictly as citizens of a particular nation, but as citizens of the whole world.
To understand the concept of global citizenship we need to begin with its foundations
First we need to consider: what is a citizen?
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