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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Cultures may perceive citizenship and social responsibility from different perspectives. The West often reduces democracy to voting in elections, whatever are the aspirants’ personal attributes. Hence, power-holders are allowed, and even authorized, to be one-sided rather than requisitely holistic; to feel independent rather than interdependent; to be more socially negligent than socially accountable. And this is one of the best model so far, but not good enough for humanity to come close to what L. v. Bertalanffy called 'being the citizens of the world rather than of a country’.
We understand citizenship and social responsibility as an interactive process related to social meanings, where we recognize others and ourselves through permanent negotiations, as properties that emerge from the way humans relate to each other.
We are inviting contribution to explore these attributes as emerging properties within human social interactions, beyond legal and political conditions. Contributions that include the value of knowledge focused on innovative social transformations toward a socially responsible community and society.
We welcome different approaches to identify the ways to build up communities more systemically (i.e. requisitely holistic), hence with an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes the attitude “Thank you for not agreeing with me, your insight is completing up my knowledge and values” as a basis for an ethics of interdependence, leading to a more holistic social responsibility and citizenship as a way of making a society more socially responsible, both locally and globally.
Perspectives from local contexts and knowledge include co-learning processes to promote equality, diversity, inclusion, cohesion and real participation towards building up sustainable communities beyond technological innovation processes focused on the wellbeing of the people, communities and society.
