Rethinking Urban Citizenship in the Post-COVID South Korean Context

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

As the world slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper focuses on the fact that the current global health crisis brought on by COVID-19 is never medical or individual alone in dimensions but also political, economic, cultural, social or public, and environmental. Despite the global pandemic strengthening the nostalgia for nationalism and strong and closed borders, COVID-19 made it very clear that the world imagined as being composed of distinct and bounded nation-states is integrated and connected with nature more than ever before. Another aspect of COVID-19 that needs attention is the fact that the global pandemic unfolded in major cities across the world.
As we prepare for the post-COVID world, the questions of rights and the scope of membership when implementing emergency responses to disasters and health crises have become the main concern. Moreover, the increasing importance of cities in organizing and shaping cultural, social, and economic flows has prompted recognition of their role in fostering new forms of citizenship that are no longer making the sovereign state the only locus of citizenship.
As a theoretical discussion paper, this paper outlines citizenship studies with a focus on the relationship between the new forms of post-national citizenship and the city. After examining urban citizenship as a form of post-national citizenship, this paper attempts to rethink urban citizenship in the post-COVID South Korean context. The examination of South Korea’s national responses to COVID-19 led to an awareness of global cities that may be reconsidered as an alternative social and political space for urban citizenship in the age of global health crisis. With such an awareness, this paper reviews the theoretical discussions on new forms of post-national citizenship, namely cosmopolitan citizenship, global citizenship, and multicultural citizenship, and suggests three dimensions of urban citizenship -status, rights, and identity- that are useful in rethinking urban citizenship in the post-COVID South Korean context to ignite and advance further debate and empirical studies on urban citizenship.

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