ABSTRACT
Citizenship is being contested, rethought, and redefined by, and for, children and youth amid globalization, nationalism, conflict migration, and displacement. This chapter overview contests citizenship’s current global-local framing, as reflected in citizenship discourses at large and in the field of comparative and international education in particular. The chapters in this book challenge citizenship’s taken-for-granted assumptions rooted in notions of locale, liberalism, and longevity. Citizenship’s meanings among youth are explored in relation to three areas that form the sections of the book, namely: the tensions and expansions in how citizenship is conceptually framed; the diverse spatial contexts in which citizenship is being enacted; and youths’ negotiation of citizenship and difference in light of monumental social and political change transnationally. Implications for formal global citizenship education are also considered.
