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The societal impact of new technologies ›
09 June, 2017
Today's society can hardly be understood without understanding how technology affects us. Mankind has gradually become more and more embedded in a technological ecosystem that is today the basis of pr
Rainer Bauböck: Globalization, new technologies and the future of democratic citizenship ›
22 January, 2018
Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute.
ABSTRACT
Liberal democratic citizenship has been shaped by the legacies of Athens (democracy) and Rome (legal rights) but operate between individuals and states. In a Westphalian world, citizenship has both instrumental and identity value. Enhanced opportunities and interests in mobility rights strengthen instrumental interests in multiple citizenship among immigrants, among populations in less developed countries, and among wealthy elites. The latter two trends potentially undermine a genuine link norm and, if they prevail, might replace the Westphalian allocation of citizenship with a global market. New digital technologies create a second challenge to Westphalian citizenship. As has argued, digital identities could provide a global legal persona for all human beings independently of their nationality, and blockchain technologies could enable the formation of non-territorial political communities providing governance services to their members independently of states. Both the instrumental uses of citizenship for geographic mobility and technologies that create substitutes for territorial citizenship are not merely relevant as current trends. They are also advocated and defended normatively as responses to the global injustice of the birthright lottery. I will challenge this idea and argue that liberal democracies should not be conceived as voluntary associations whose membership is freely chosen, but as communities of destiny among people who have been thrown together by history and their circumstances of life. How these foundations of democratic community can be maintained in the context of rising mobility and the digital revolution remains an open question.
Research program ›
11 January, 2016
The research program that currently sets the framework for research activities at the institute is written by Gustaf Arrhenius, director and professor of practical philosophy and will be ongoing durin
Previous research programs ›
11 January, 2016
Here you can find information on the Institutes previous research programs during the 2000s. Contact us for more information about previous research programs.
Gustaf Arrheniusfirst research program was n and comprised five themes that were all interdisciplinary; Our responsibility towards future generations, Democracy in the 21st century, New technologies and the future of humanity, Discrimination, sexism and racism, and Equality.
About us ›
11 January, 2016
Welcome to the Institute for Futures Studies. We are an independent research foundation where researchers from different social science disciplines conduct research on issues that are of great importa
Human enhancement and technological uncertainty ›
12 December, 2014
It's hard to know where the knowledge we acquire and the technology we develop may take us. Sometimes it is not until after several years that we learn how these skills or technologies can benefit - o