Citizenship in a Global Age : Society, Culture, Politics

by DELANTY

• ISBN13: 9780335204892
• ISBN10: 0335204899
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

* 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.

Author Biography

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	ix
Preface and acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Part one Models of citizenship	7	(42)
The liberal theory of citizenship: rights and duties	9	(14)
Citizenship and the struggle for equality	11	(3)
Marshall's theory of citizenship: from the market to the state	14	(3)
The limits of Marshall's theory of citizenship	17	(4)
Summary	21	(2)
Communitarian theories of citizenship: participation and identity	23	(13)
Liberal communitarianism	24	(4)
Conservative communitarianism	28	(2)
Civic republicanism	30	(5)
Summary	35	(1)
The radical theories of politics: citizenship and democracy	36	(13)
Direct democracy and new social movements	36	(3)
Discursive democracy	39	(4)
Feminist citizenship: the politics of cultural pluralism	43	(3)
Summary	46	(3)
Part two The cosmopolitan challenge	49	(74)
Cosmopolitan citizenship: beyond the nation state	51	(17)
Towards cosmopolitan citizenship	52	(1)
Internationalism and legal cosmopolitanism	53	(5)
Globalization and political cosmopolitanism: the idea of global civil society	58	(5)
Transnational communities	63	(1)
Post-nationalism	64	(3)
Summary	67	(1)
Human rights and citizenship: the emergence of the embodied self	68	(13)
Human rights, modernity and equality	69	(4)
Human rights and the postmodern critique of the self	73	(7)
Summary	80	(1)
Globalization and the deterritorialization of space: between order and chaos	81	(13)
What is globalization?	82	(3)
The sociological analyses of globalization	85	(4)
Capitalism and democracy as global dynamics	89	(3)
Summary	92	(2)
The transformation of the nation state: nationalism, the city, migration and multiculturalism	94	(13)
The new nationalism: from inclusion to exclusion	95	(4)
The city as the space of citizenship	99	(3)
Immigrants and multiculturalism	102	(4)
Summary	106	(1)
European integration and post-national citizenship: four kinds of post-nationalization	107	(16)
The three phases of European integration	109	(1)
The argument against post-nationalism	110	(2)
European post-national society	112	(8)
Summary	120	(3)
Part three Rethinking citizenship	123	(23)
The reconfiguration of citizenship: post-national governance in the multi-levelled polity	125	(12)
The fragmentation of citizenship?	126	(6)
Citizenship and the crisis of democracy	132	(2)
Citizenship in the multi-levelled polity	134	(2)
Summary	136	(1)
Conclusion: the idea of civic cosmopolitanism	137	(9)
Bibliography	146	(17)
Index	163