ABSTRACT
“Global citizenship” has emerged as the locus of struggles on the ground and of reflection and contestation in theory. Many of the central and most enduring struggles in the history of politics have taken place in and over the language of citizenship and the activities and institutions into which it is woven. The language of “global” and “globalisation” and the activities, institutions, and processes to which it refers and in which it is increasingly used, while more recent than citizenship, comprise a similarly central and contested domain. Globalisation has become a shared yet disputed vocabulary in terms of which rival interpretations of the ways humans and their habitats are governed globally are presented and disputed in both practice and theory. The most familiar aspect of modern citizenship is its role as the modular form of citizenship associated with the historical processes of modernisation/colonisation.
