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Critically examine the concepts of nation and citizenship in the context of globalization.

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  • Politics and Society in India

Globalization was expected to hollow out both the nation, as a bounded community of sentiment, and citizenship, as membership of a territorial state. The evidence is more awkward: both are being reconfigured rather than dissolved, and in opposite directions for different classes of people.

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  • The nation under globalization
  • Citizenship stretched beyond the state
  • The critique
  • Conclusion

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