1. Global Citizenship

2. Reading: Valentine Ch 9 pp. 321-332

3. Global Citizenship Traditional to associate citizenship with nation Globalization is changing things –Politics, culture, economy no longer stop at the national border

4. Deterritorialization International regimes of governance developing which challenge the sovereignty of the state: –UN, WTO –NAFTA, NATO, NAFO

5. Forms of Global Citizenship Forms of global citizenship emerging around –Technology –Ecology –others?

6. Technological Citizenship Information technology creating disembodied social networks People connecting globally and non- nationally through technology Content and access on Internet largely unregulated

7. Technological Citizenship Some countries try to restrict access to the Internet –China –Saudi Arabia –Singapore –Iraq

8. Technological Citizenship National citizenship taking to cyberspace –disseminate government information via Web –Government of Canada converting all forms to web format

9. Technological Citizenship Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) taking to the web to organize their activities –Mexico’s rebel Zapatistas –Serbians opposed to NATO bombing

10. Technological Citizenship International political movements being organized via Internet –anti-WTO protests –Protests against the new Iraq war

11. Toronto

12. St Clair Ave W

13. Lexington MA

14. London UK

15. Palo Alto CA

16. Montréal

17. San Francisco

22. San Francisco, October 2002

23. Germany

24. Halifax 2002

25. Kipling Ave, Dec 2002

26. Use of computers to generate protest media

31. Technological Citizenship International crime & terrorism using the Internet –possibility of cyber-attacks –use of web for communications –internet scams

32. Technological Citizenship Seems to flourish best in affluent communities with access to technology Most internet music copyright violations associated with university students –music consumers with available time and T1 internet access

33. Ecological Citizenship Realization that ecological issues are global in scale Emergence of some international arrangements to deal with ecological issues –UN Earth Summits –CITES, Kyoto Accord

34. Ecological Citizenship Strong role played by NGOs –International NGOs: Greenpeace, IFAW, –National or Local NGOs: Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club Greenpeace: “act locally, think globally”

35. World Economic Forum protests

37. Scotland

38. Ecological Citizenship Requires technological access and affluence? –Not always, but it helps

39. Odds & Ends Next week: –no classes, office hours continue 31 March –Exam preparation –Assignment #2 returned