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Article The Worldview Core of Citizenship: from Traditional to Emancipation Values
Authors IRYNA SOFINSKA
Name of magazine Legal journal «Law of Ukraine» (Ukrainian version)
Issue 5 / 2019
Pages 138 - 150
Annotation

The modern concept of citizenship is undergoing gradual transformation under the influence of major geopolitical changes, permanent civilizational and globalization challenges. No longer is citizenship an exclusive legal sign indicating that an individual is a part of a certain State because a meaningful and understandable schematization is changing: an individual as a citizen becomes increasingly weighty (gets value in terms of social and political life of the State), his/her rights are backed up by the State’s guarantee despite the place of his/her birth and residence.

As the basic motivation to explore the worldview core of citizenship, there appears the objective of comprehensive disclosure of the citizenship concept, with due regard for the arguments of its human and universal character. The author formulates the legal narrative in the modern anthroposphere of citizenship as a mechanism to ensure democratism of the State and manifest legal identity of people as a keystone segment of each State, with identification of its traditional/emancipative values at the same time.

The article attempts at outlining the worldview core of citizenship in the context of the relations triad “individual – State – society”, with account taken of the common and divergent features of traditional as well as emancipative values within the establishment of citizenship as an institution. The article highlights the achievements by those scholars (R. Baubiuka, R. Bellamy, R. Brubaker, P. Vale, J. Habermas, D. Hiter, S. Holovatyi, R.-J. de Groot, K. Joppke, J. Kerens, V. Kymlika, B. Kistiakivskyi, N. Koziubra, T. Marshall, O. Poiedynok, P. Spiro, V. Starosolskyi, A. Shakhar, P. Shchuka, and others) who earlier explored the value paradigm of citizenship and legal identity of an individual in the context of globalization, migration and human rights.

Relevant analytical and statistical expert reports and forecasts provide clear guidance for a further modernization of intellectual segmentation of citizenship models and elements. A rethinking of the ideological core of citizenship is characterized by the establishment of the triad of relations “individual – State – society” constant in time and space, with due regard for the permanent civilizational and globalization challenges (which are mostly anthropogenic).

The value orientation to be adhered to in the development of the State and society should be the comprehension of citizenship as a legal and efficient connection between the State and an individual which is constant in time and space, without specifying an individual’s ethnical origin, and which involves a certain set (legally defined and enshrined) of mutual rights, duties and privileges. Regardless of when and how citizenship is acquired, its value characteristics depend solely on the awareness, rooting and integration of an individual.

 

Keywords citizenship; traditional values; emancipative values; human-centrism
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