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One of the many consequences of processes of ‘globalization’ has been the separation of nation and state, and thus the delinking of culture and politics (on this, see Albrow and O’Byrne, 2000). Accordingly, citizenship, as a form of political identity, is separated from nationality. Citizenship can be understood as the negotiation, at the level of the individual, of the various strategies that are made available to the individual for political empowerment. It involves rights and duties, participation and membership, exclusion and inclusion, but these are all politically constructed concepts. This chapter considers how political identities are maintained under such conditions.
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O’Byrne, D.J. (2001). On the Construction of Political Identity: Negotiations and Strategies Beyond the Nation-State. In: Kennedy, P., Danks, C.J. (eds) Globalization and National Identities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985458_9
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