This book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization. It argues that citizenship is

Presents a distinctly local idea of citizenship that, with the advance of globalization, often conflicts with national citizenship.

This book examines issues of citizenship, citizenship education, and social change in China, exploring the complexity of interactions among global forces, the n

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-

Citizenship is widely understood in binary statist terms: inclusion/exclusion, past/present, with the emphasis on how globalization brings such binaries into fo