Beyond Citizenship
American Identity After Globalization
American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship has mostly been about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for citizenship have worked to resolve the peculiar challenges of American identity. But globalization is detaching identity from location. What used to define American was rooted in American space. Now one can be anywhere and be an American, politically or culturally. Against that backdrop, it becomes difficult to draw the boundaries of human community in a meaningful way. Longstanding notions of democratic citizenship are becoming obsolete, even as w…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-972225-9
- EAN: 9780199722259
- Produktnummer: 13892484
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'263 KB
Über den Autor
Peter J. Spiro is Charles Weiner Professor of Law at Temple University. A former State Department lawyer, National Security Council staff member, and U.S. Supreme Court law clerk, he has written on international, immigration, and constitutional law for many of the nation's top law reviews as well as such publications as Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.
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