Secular citizenship depends on a national personality it cannot shed

Evidence

It appears clearly that modern citizenship as it developed within the nation-state has become in part obsolete. But it also seems that we are still searching for a new multidimensional concept of citizenship which would be more adapted to the complexity of the global world. In the future, citizenship understood as a juridical status granting civil, political, and social rights and duties to the individual members of a political collectivity, as a set of specific social roles (voter, activist, etc.) performed by the citizen and as a set of moral qualities often referred to as the expression of civism, can be expected to be located not only at the nation-state level, but also locally at the regional level (for example, EU citizenship) and at the global level. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 845 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal universal citizenship can leave excluded identity intact beneath its surface — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1620; Nationalist worldliness structurally depends on the secular concept — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 943; Secular personal ethics depends on a specific political realm to exist (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Citizenship is evolving toward multiple simultaneous levels beyond the nation-state #complicates (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 845
• Political and cultural boundaries rarely coincide, forcing citizenship beyond the nation-state #complicates (0.73)