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Environmental Obligations and the Limits of Transnational Citizenship

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Notions of cosmopolitan and environmental citizenship have emerged in response to concerns about environmental sustainability and global inequality. But even if there are obligations of egalitarian justice that extend across state boundaries, or obligations of environmental justice to use resources in a sustainable way that are owed to those beyond our borders, it is far from clear that these are best conceptualised as obligations of global or environmental citizenship. Through identifying a core concept of citizenship, I suggest that citizenship obligations are, by their nature, owed (at least in part) in virtue of other aspects of one's common citizenship, and that obligations of justice, even when they arise as a result of interconnectedness or past interactions, are not best conceived as obligations of citizenship in the absence of some other bond that unites the parties. Without ruling out the possibility of beneficial conceptual change, I argue that Andrew Dobson's model of ecological citizenship is flawed because there is no good reason to regard the obligations of environmental justice which it identifies as obligations of ecological citizenship, and that other models of cosmopolitan or global citizenship face a similar objection.

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  • Andrew Mason, 2009. "Environmental Obligations and the Limits of Transnational Citizenship," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 57(2), pages 280-297, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:57:y:2009:i:2:p:280-297
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2008.00737.x
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    1. Cagdas Dedeoglu & Cansu Ekmekcioglu, 2020. "Information Infrastructures and the Future of Ecological Citizenship in the Anthropocene," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-17, January.

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