Citizenship: what does it entail and can it be global? With Mark Allinson
At the start of this course, we are encouraging you to consider in what ways you feel yourself to be a ‘global citizen’. Before we go deeper into the many …
Course: Unleash Your Potential: Global Citizenship
Making your own rules for national citizenship
There is no unified agreement around the world, or even within Europe, on when or why a person can become a citizen of a nation. But, what do you think …
Membership, citizenship and political rights
Who should be entitled to political rights in any given society? It is often the case that only citizens of a country can vote in its local, regional and national …
How Has the Internet Affected Freedom of Speech?
There are many different areas of life that beliefs or rules around freedom of speech will impact. This can range from speakers being banned from speaking at universities because of …
Interpreting the frameworks behind ‘free speech’
In the previous video, Jacqueline mentioned some of the key legal and societal frameworks that underpin the idea of freedom of speech or expression in many states around the world …
The case of Albie Sachs
On 7 April 1988, Albert ‘Albie’ Sachs (born 1935) lost his right arm and the sight in one eye in an assassination attempt on his life by agents of apartheid …
A changing planet
In the video in the last step, you heard Rachel and Jo talk about the effect climate change has on our environment. As they outlined, one of the main causes …
The complex situation of information sharing and open access research
As we have just seen, technology and the sharing of technology can be a difficult and often controversial subject. Whether or not you see the development of the atomic bomb …
What’s Being Done to Improve Child Mortality Rates in India?
As we have just been exploring, the data suggest that there is still some way to go before the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 3, for ‘Good Health and Wellbeing’, is …
Exploring opinions on globalisation
The Spanish have a lovely saying, el mundo es un pañuelo or ‘the world is a handkerchief’, to describe those moments when we find unexpected similarities or friends in common …
The balance between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’
We just heard Theresia say that achieving the global goal of equal human rights for all is often difficult when social, cultural and economic situations are so diverse at local …
Language and (national) identity
As we have seen, the notion of ‘language’ is central to the enterprise of nation-building, which in turn greatly affects the way we see ourselves as citizens of a nation …
Is the Internet Eroding State Sovereignty?
It’s now possible to share information in more accessible and quicker forms than ever before. But, how far has this affected the way we see national sovereignty, or how and …
Global citizenship in a local context: Bristol in focus
During this course, we will often return to the tensions that exist between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’. In this step, we want to give you a snapshot of where …