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Gerard Delanty
is Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. His most recent books are Citizenship in a Global Age, Open University Press: 2000; Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society, Open University Press: 2001; Nationalism and Social Theory, Sage: 2002 (co-authored with Patrick O'Mahony); Community, Routledge: 2003; and Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization, Routledge: 2005 (co-authored with Chris Rumsford). His main current research concerns cosmopolitanism theory with an application to issues of Europeanization and modernity in a comparative perspective.
Eurozine Articles
Peripheries and borders in a post-western Europe
Europe is taking not just a post-national but also a post-western shape. The relation between the inside and the outside is complex and ambivalent; while often exclusionary, the periphery can also be viewed as the site of cosmopolitan forms of negotiation. [Slovenian version added.] [more]
Citizenship as a learning process
Disciplinary citizenship versus cultural citizenship
In the dominant liberal discourse on citizenship, learning processes have tended to be reduced to citizenship classes. Gerard Delanty outlines a concept of citizenship that, rather than merely demanding cognitive competence, has a developmental and transformative impact on the subject. [more]