Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After GlobalizationOxford University Press, 1 Feb 2008 - 208 halaman 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 we cling to them. Beyond Citizenship charts the trajectory of American citizenship and shows how American identity is unsustainable in the face of globalization. Peter J. Spiro describes how citizenship law once reflected and shaped the American national character. Spiro explores the histories of birthright citizenship, naturalization, dual citizenship, and how those legal regimes helped reinforce an otherwise fragile national identity. But on a shifting global landscape, citizenship status has become increasingly divorced from any sense of actual community on the ground. As the bonds of citizenship dissipate, membership in the nation-state becomes less meaningful. The rights and obligations distinctive to citizenship are now trivial. Naturalization requirements have been relaxed, dual citizenship embraced, and territorial birthright citizenship entrenched--developments that are all irreversible. Loyalties, meanwhile, are moving to transnational communities defined in many different ways: by race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, and sexual orientation. These communities, Spiro boldly argues, are replacing bonds that once connected people to the nation-state, with profound implications for the future of governance. Learned, incisive, and sweeping in scope, Beyond Citizenship offers a provocative look at how globalization is changing the very definition of who we are and where we belong. |
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... American liberal tradition. At the core of this tradition is the notion, to use the Bush articulation, that “America ... national political imagination, the premise of a bounded national community and a distinct American mission. When ...
... American liberal tradition. At the core of this tradition is the notion, to use the Bush articulation, that “America ... national political imagination, the premise of a bounded national community and a distinct American mission. When ...
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... American. The approach differs from others in the sense that it doesn't take the national community as insulated ... nation defined by constitutional values at a time when those values were themselves particular to Americans and American ...
... American. The approach differs from others in the sense that it doesn't take the national community as insulated ... nation defined by constitutional values at a time when those values were themselves particular to Americans and American ...
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... American community. This book attempts to situate American citizenship ... national community in the face of this penetration. I note here at the ... national identity and other communal attachments in globalization's wake. It supplies a ...
... American community. This book attempts to situate American citizenship ... national community in the face of this penetration. I note here at the ... national identity and other communal attachments in globalization's wake. It supplies a ...
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... American history, an exercise which—in theory, if not reality—would attest to a common national data set. The historical bearings are also instructive. Citizenship-for-life can now descend through U.S. citizen parents to children who ...
... American history, an exercise which—in theory, if not reality—would attest to a common national data set. The historical bearings are also instructive. Citizenship-for-life can now descend through U.S. citizen parents to children who ...
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American Identity After Globalization Peter J. Spiro. This book might well ... state will persist as the most important actor in international affairs and ... state. The shift may be tectonic—slow and not easily detected but also broad and ...
American Identity After Globalization Peter J. Spiro. This book might well ... state will persist as the most important actor in international affairs and ... state. The shift may be tectonic—slow and not easily detected but also broad and ...
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2 Made American | 33 |
3 Not Only American | 59 |
4 Take It or Leave It American | 81 |
5 American Defined | 109 |
6 Beyond American | 137 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Notes | 165 |
Selected Bibliography | 179 |
Index | 183 |
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