Global citizenship and the global city

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Öztemel, Özlem
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In the last two decades, the accelerated global developments in economic, cultural and socio-political era have affected the constitution of citizenship which has been defined in accordance with nation. Therefore, this thesis analyses the debate on global citizenship around the issue of the state of citizenship under the conditions of global city. This thesis focuses on the question 'who is (not) the citizen' or 'who act as citizen' in the space of global cities. In other words, it questions how and by whom citizenship is being challenged and constituted in the context of global cities?
Globalization, Citizenship, Global citizenship, Global city
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13373
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ö. Öztemel, “Global citizenship and the global city,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
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