Old and new rights: E-citizenship in historical perspective

Mauro Di Meglio, Enrico Gargiulo

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Abstract

This chapter offers a long-term perspective on citizenship, questioning one of the basic assumptions of most of the literature on this topic, that is, the nation-state as unit of analysis. Through the adoption of a world-systemic perspective, two basic aspects of the history of citizenship stand out. Firstly, the fundamentally exclusive nature of this category, as it emerged and developed over the history of the modern world-system, since at least the "long 16th Century". And, secondly, that well before the so-called "information revolution" of the last decades, "technology" has shaped the Western social imagination, acting, in various and changing historical forms, as an effective instrument of control and supremacy, producing asymmetric and inegalitarian effects, and providing a yardstick of the different "levels of development" of Western and non-Western peoples. In this view, the most recent phase of the history of citizenship, his e-form, seems to replicate, in new ways, the explanations of the gap existing both between and within countrie-now conceptualized as "digital divide"-and, at the same time, the illusory universalistic promise of an expansion of the citizenship and the rights associated to it.

Lingua originaleInglese
Titolo della pubblicazione ospiteElectronic Constitution
Sottotitolo della pubblicazione ospiteSocial, Cultural, and Political Implications
EditoreIGI GLOBAL
Pagine20-39
Numero di pagine20
ISBN (stampa)9781605662541
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2009
Pubblicato esternamente

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