Citizenship In A Global Age
* What is citizenship?
* Is global citizenship possible?
* Can cosmopolitanism provide an alternative to globalization?

Citizenship in a Global Age provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization. It argues that citizenship is no longer defined by nationality and the nation state, but has become de-territorialized and fragmented into the separate discourses of rights, participation, responsibility and identity. Gerard Delanty claims that cosmopolitanism is increasingly becoming a significant force in the global world due to new expressions of cultural identity, civic ties, human rights, technological innovations, ecological sustainability and political mobilization. Citizenship is no longer exclusively about the struggle for social equality but has become a major site of battles over cultural identity and demands for the recognition of group difference. Delanty argues that globalization both threatens and supports cosmopolitan citizenship. Critical of the prospects for a global civil society, he defends the alternative idea of a more limited cosmopolitan public sphere as a basis for new kinds of citizenship that have emerged in a global age.

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Citizenship In A Global Age
* What is citizenship?
* Is global citizenship possible?
* Can cosmopolitanism provide an alternative to globalization?

Citizenship in a Global Age provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization. It argues that citizenship is no longer defined by nationality and the nation state, but has become de-territorialized and fragmented into the separate discourses of rights, participation, responsibility and identity. Gerard Delanty claims that cosmopolitanism is increasingly becoming a significant force in the global world due to new expressions of cultural identity, civic ties, human rights, technological innovations, ecological sustainability and political mobilization. Citizenship is no longer exclusively about the struggle for social equality but has become a major site of battles over cultural identity and demands for the recognition of group difference. Delanty argues that globalization both threatens and supports cosmopolitan citizenship. Critical of the prospects for a global civil society, he defends the alternative idea of a more limited cosmopolitan public sphere as a basis for new kinds of citizenship that have emerged in a global age.

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Citizenship In A Global Age

Citizenship In A Global Age

by Delanty
Citizenship In A Global Age

Citizenship In A Global Age

by Delanty

Overview

* What is citizenship?
* Is global citizenship possible?
* Can cosmopolitanism provide an alternative to globalization?

Citizenship in a Global Age provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization. It argues that citizenship is no longer defined by nationality and the nation state, but has become de-territorialized and fragmented into the separate discourses of rights, participation, responsibility and identity. Gerard Delanty claims that cosmopolitanism is increasingly becoming a significant force in the global world due to new expressions of cultural identity, civic ties, human rights, technological innovations, ecological sustainability and political mobilization. Citizenship is no longer exclusively about the struggle for social equality but has become a major site of battles over cultural identity and demands for the recognition of group difference. Delanty argues that globalization both threatens and supports cosmopolitan citizenship. Critical of the prospects for a global civil society, he defends the alternative idea of a more limited cosmopolitan public sphere as a basis for new kinds of citizenship that have emerged in a global age.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780335204892
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 12/01/2000
Series: Issues in Society Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He was Visiting Professor at York University, Toronto in 1998, and in 2000 Visiting Professor at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and he has taught at universities in Ireland, Germany and Italy. He is the Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Theory and author of many articles on social theory, the philosophy of the social sciences and the historical and political sociology of European societies. He has written the following books: Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (1995), Social Science: Beyond Constructivism and Realism (1997), Social Theory in a Changing World (1999), Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power, the Self (2000). He is also publishing a book on the university and the knowledge society with Open University Press.

Table of Contents

Series editor's foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction

Part one: Models of citizenship

The liberal theory of citizenship rights and duties
Communitarian theories of citizenship participation and identity
The radical theories of politics citizenship and democracy

Part two: The cosmopolitan challenge

Cosmopolitan citizenship beyond the nation-state
Human rights and citizenship the emergence of the embodied self
Globalization and the deterritorialization of space between order and chaos
The transformation of the nation-state nationalism, the city, migration and multi-culturalism
European integration and postnational citizenship four kinds of postnationalization

Part three: Rethinking citizenship

The reconfiguration of citizenship postnational governance in the multi-levelled polity
Conclusion the idea of civic cosmopolitanism
References
Index.

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