The World We Want by Mark Kingwell
Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen
What happens to political responsibility in an age of fractured identities, global monoculture, and crumbling civic nationalism?
The World We Want by Mark Kingwell
First edition
Condition: Near fine, dust jacket has very light edge wear. Hardback.
Publishing Info: Viking, Toronto, 2000
ISBN: 9780670889242
Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen
More and more, as the globe turns into a billboard for corporate propagation, the nature of citizenship is becoming skewed. For the cellphone-brandishing inhabitants of a world carved up into markets and territories determined by production and consumption, transcending the traditional boundaries of nation-states, what does it mean to be a citizen?
In The World We Want, Mark Kingwell explores the idea of citizenship in the current post-national context, arguing that old ideas of civic belonging, historically tied to blood, belief and law, need to be reconceived. What happens to political responsibility in an age of fractured identities, global monoculture, and crumbling civic nationalism? How do we make sense of a situation where the uniform spread of cola, television and market rationalism is accompanied by resurgent ethnic hatreds?
