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Citizenship is not a static concept. It is not inherently national & exclusively nation-centered understandings of citizenship are too narrow for the current era of globalization. However, the claim that citizenship has been denationalized or postnationalized still needs to be proven. Four meanings of citizenship are reviewed in the context of denationalized citizenship -- legal status, enjoyment of rights, active engagement in the life of a polity, & public identity. Postnational citizenship fits least with citizenship as legal status, but better with the other meanings, especially with citizenship as collective identity & solidarity. With the decentralization of the nation-state as the locus of collective institutional & associative life, denationalized citizenship is a desired good. A commitment to pluralization & even beyond, to postcitizenship, is discussed. 61 References. M. Pflum