Vol 11, No 1, 2012 pp. 103-114
UDC 316.334.56
THE GLOBAL CITY AND CHANGES IN THE CONCEPT OF CITIZENSHIP
Jelena Božilović
University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia
E-mail: jelena.bozilovic@filfak.ni.ac.rs
This paper aims to show that the mobility of the population, caused by global capitalist flows, changes the structure of the population in cities, creating a multicultural urban citizenship, which makes demands to nation-states for the definition of new concepts of citizenship that are not reduced to belonging to a nation and national identity. The paper presents an overview of some of the more significant theoretical concepts which deal with this problem. One of them is the global city as a form emerging from the activity of global economic and political flows, yet at the same time as a multicultural environment and the centre of creation of new identities. Furthermore, new concepts of citizenship based on identities that are not national are considered, with the description of some of the influential cosmopolitan concepts which search for universal citizenship principles.
Key words: global city, erosion of national citizenship, new concepts of citizenship, cosmopolitanism.
GLOBALNI GRAD I PROMENE U KONCEPTU GRAĐANSTVA
Cilj rada je da pokaže da mobilnost stanovništva izazvana globalnim kapitalističkim tokovima, menja strukturu gradskog stanovništva pri čemu nastaje multikulturalno urbano građanstvo, koje postavlja zahteve nacionalnim državama za definisanjem novih građanskih koncepata koji nisu svedeni na nacionalnu pripadnost i nacionalni identitet. U radu se daje prikaz nekih od značajnih teorijskih koncepata koja se bave ovom problematikom. Jedan od njih je globalni grad kao forma nastala dejstvom globalnih ekonomskih i političkih tokova, ali istovremeno i kao multikulturalna sredina i središte kreacije novih identiteta. Takođe se razmatraju novi koncepti građanstva zasnovani na identitetima koji nisu nacionalni i daje se prikaz nekih od uticajnih kosmopolitskih koncepcija koje tragaju za univerzalnim građanskim principima.
Ključne reči: globalni grad, erozija nacionalnog građanstva, novi koncepti građanstva, kosmopolitizam
