Gerard DelantyEmeritus Professor (Sociology and Criminology)
Research
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听My Current Research Projects and Activities include the following:
Temporalities of the Anthropocene and ideas of the future
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Capitalism and democracy
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Economy, Society and and State: Political and historical sociology of Europes
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Comopolitanism, with a particular focus on world varieties of cosmopolitanism
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Comparative perspectives on modernity
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The European cultural and political heritage
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Critical sustainability. Collaboration with the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies in Futures of Sustainability, Hamburg University.
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Recently compleded: 鈥楽ocial platform鈥 project on Cultural Heritage and European Identities, funded from the Horizon 2020 programme within the call Reflective Society 2012. This is a two year 鈥榮ocial platform鈥 project beginning in May 2015. The partners include the Central European University, Budapest, Centre for Cultural Policy Research, University of Glasgow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Universitat de Barcelona, Universit茅 de Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne, and Interarts. See the project's website 听http://culturalbase.eu/
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Other Activities
I edit the , a quarterly published by Sage. 听
http://est.sagepub.com/听 Email address: ejst@sussex.ac.uk The EJST was founded in 1998 by Gerard Delanty and has been an ISI listed journal since 2010.听
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A Selection of Recent Publications (since 2009)
Books:
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Delanty, G. 2024 Senses of the Future: Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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Delanty, G. (with Neal Harris) 2023听Capitalism and its Critics. London: Routledge.
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Delanty, G. 2020 Critical Theory and Social Transformation:听Crises of the Present and Future Possibilities. London: Routledge.听听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听听
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Delanty, G. 2018听The European Heritage: A Critical Re-Interpretation. London: Routledge.听
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Delanty, G.听 2019 2nd edition听Formations of European Modernity: A Historical and Political Sociology of Europe. London: Palgrave.听
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Delanty, G. 2018 3rd听Edition听Community, Routledge: London.听
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Delanty, G. 2009 The Cosmopolitan Imagination: the Renewal of Critical Social Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Edited Books:
Delanty, G. (with Stephen Turner) (eds) 2022听 2nd edition, Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory. London: Routledge
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Delanty, G. (ed.) 听2021 Pandemics, Society and Politics: Critical Reflections on the Pandemic. Berlin: De Gruyter.听听
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Delanty, G. (ed.) 听2018 2nd edition听Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies. London: Routledge.
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Delanty, G. (with David Inglis) (ed.) 2010 Cosmopolitanism: Critical Concepts in 听the Social Sciences. 4 vols. London. Routledge.
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Delanty, G. (with M. Sassatelli and Giorgi, L.) 听2011 (eds) Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere London: Routledge
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Journal Articles:
Delanty, G. (with Neal Harris) 鈥榃hat is Capitalism? Towards a working definition鈥. Social Science Information
https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184231203878
Delanty, G. 2023 鈥業ntroduction to the Special Issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A New European War?A New European War? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War鈥 European Journal of Social Theory 26 (4).
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Delanty, G. 2021 鈥業magining the Future: Social Struggles, the Post-National Domain and Major Contemporary Social Transformations鈥 Journal of Sociology 57 (1): 27-46听听 听听
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Delanty, G听 (with Neal Harris) 2021 鈥楥ritical Theory and Technology: The Frankfurt School Revisited鈥櫶 Thesis Eleven听 166 (1): 88-108.听听
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Delanty, G. 2021 鈥楻eturn of the Nation-State? De-Europeanization and the Limits of Neo-Nationalism鈥 Journal of Contemporary European Research 17 (2): 103-115.听 https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v17i2.1180
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Delanty, G.听 2021 鈥楩utures of Sustainability: Perspectives on Social Imaginaries and Social Transformation鈥Social Science Information. 60 (2): 159-67.听
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Delanty, G. 2020. 鈥La sociologie aujourd鈥檋ui et l鈥檋茅ritage classique鈥. Revue du MAUSS 56 (2): 129-40 [Sociology Today and the Classical Legacy]
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Delanty, G. 听2020 鈥楥ritical Theory as a Critique of UnSustainability: 鈥淒amaged Life鈥 in the Anthropocene鈥. Estudios P煤blicos vol 159听 (in English and in Spanish). DOI:
听https://www.cepchile.cl/cep/site/docs/20200824/20200824144957/rev159_gdelanty_eng.pdf
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Delanty, G. 2019听 鈥楾he Future of Capitalism: Trends, Scenarios and Prospects for the Future鈥櫶Journal of Classical Sociology.听19:1
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Delanty, G.听 2019听 鈥榃hat does Self-Determination Mean Today? The Resurgence of Nationalism and European Integration in Question鈥櫶Global Discourse听听9 (1)
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Delanty, G. 听2017 听鈥楨ntangled Memories and Transnational Histories: Current Trends and Directions for Research on the European Cultural Heritage鈥櫶European Legacy听听vol.听22 (2): 129-45.
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Delanty, G. and Mota, A. 2017 鈥楪overning the Anthropocene: Agency, Goveranace and Knowledge鈥櫶European Journal of Social Theory听20 (1): 9-38.
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Delanty, G. 2016 鈥楾he Making of European Society: contesting methodological nationalism鈥 Special issue of听Innovation: The European Journal of Social听 Sciences听29 (1): 3-15.
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Delanty, G. 2016 鈥楳ultiple Europes, Multiple Modernities: Conceptualizing the Plurality of Europe鈥櫶Comparative European Politics听14 (4): 398-416
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Delanty, G. 2016 鈥楢 Transnational World? The Implications of Transnationalism for Comparative Historical Sociology鈥听Social Imaginaries听2 (2).
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Delanty, G. 2016 鈥楴achdenken 眉ber die Beudeutung von Solidarit盲t und heutiges Europa,鈥櫶Sozialwisenschaftlische Literatur Rundschau听听听73: 123-32.
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Delanty, G. 2015听 鈥楨urope in World Regional Perspective: Formations of Modernity and Major Historical Transformations鈥櫶British Journal of Sociology听66 (3): 420-40
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Delanty, G. and Mota, M. 听2015 鈥楨isenstadt, Brazil and the Multiple Modernities Framework: revisions and reconsiderations鈥櫶Journal of Classical Sociology听15 (2): 39-57.
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Delanty, G. 听2015听鈥Europe and the Emergence of Modernity鈥听History, Culture and Modernity听vol 3, no. 3
https://www.history-culture-modernity.org/articles/10.18352/hcm.491/
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Delanty, G. 2014 鈥楾he Prospects of Cosmopolitanism and the Possibility of Global Justice鈥Journal of Sociology听50 (2): 213-228.
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Delanty, G. 听2014 鈥楴ot all is Lost in Translation: World Varieties of Cosmopolitanism鈥Cultural Sociology听8 (4): 374-91听
Published in Spanish translation in听Papers: Revista de Sociologia听听2015 vol 100, no. 3: 282-203 听 Availble online 听http://papers.uab.cat/issue/view/v100-n3
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Delanty, G. 听2014听鈥業ntroduction: Perspectives on Crisis and Critique in Europe Today,鈥听European Journal of Social Theory听on听Europe in Crisis听vol 17 (3): 207-218.听听
Delanty, G. 2012 鈥楢 Cosmopolitan Approach to the Explanation of Social Change鈥 Sociological Review 62 (2): 333-54.
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Delanty, G. 2012 鈥楨urope in an Age of Austerity: Contradictions of Capitalism and Democracy鈥 International Critical Thought 2 (4): 445-55.
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Delanty. G. 2012 鈥楾he Historical Regions of Europe: Civilizational Backgrounds and Multiple Routes to Modernity鈥 Historick谩 sociologie 3 (1-2) Available on-line http://historicalsociology.cz/abstracts/1-2-2012/gerard-delanty
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Delanty, G. 2011 鈥榁arieties of Critique in Sociological Theory and their Methodological Implications for Social Research鈥櫶Irish Journal of Sociology听19 (1): 98-62
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Delanty, G. 2011 鈥楥ultural Diversity, Democracy and the Prospects of Cosmopolitanism: A Theory of Cultural Encounters鈥櫶British Journal of Sociology听62: 4: 633-56.
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Delanty, G.听 2010 鈥楥ivilizational Analysis and Critical Theory鈥櫶Thesis Eleven听No 100: 46-52
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Book Chapters:
Delanty, G. 2022 鈥楥apitalism and Crisis: Thinking through capitalist crisis with Schumpeter and Polanyi鈥. In: Capitalism, Democracy and Socialism: Critical Debates, edited by James Chamberlain and Albena Azmanova. Berlin: Springer. PP 241-58.
Delanty, G. 2022 鈥楽ociology Today and the Classical Legacy鈥 In: Where is Sociology Going? Ideology or Objective Social Science, edited by Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin, and Stephen Turner. London: Routledge.
Delanty, G. 2020 鈥楥hallenges of Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Imagination:听 The Implications of the Anthropocene鈥. Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter edited by Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisbourne, Sandra Halperin, Claudia Lueders. London: Routledge
Delanty, G. 2020 鈥榃ann beginnt die Zukunft? 脺berlegungen zu Temporalit盲t, Nachhaltigkeit und Zukunftsszenarien鈥樚齕When Does the Future Begin?听 Temporality, Sustainability and Future Prospects]. In: Adloff, F. and Neckel, S (eds) Imaginationen von Nachhaltigkeit. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.听 [In German]
Delanty, G. 听2020 鈥楳ultiple and Entangled Modernities, Cosmopolitanism and Translation鈥. In: Routledge Handbook of Translation and Globalization, Esperan莽a Bielsa and Dionysios Kapsaskis (eds). London: Routledge.
Delanty, G. 2021 鈥業ntroduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context. In:Delanty, G. (ed.) Pandemics, Society and Politics: Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Crisis. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Delanty, G. 2021 听鈥楾he Pathogenesis of Brexit: Pathologies of British Political Modernity鈥. In: Harris, N. (ed.)听 Critical Theory and Social Pathology. pp 23-45. London: Palgrave.
Delanty, G. 听2021鈥楥an the European Heritage be Redeemed?
Confessions of an Europeanist鈥. In.: The Idea of Europe: The Clash of Projections, edited by Biti, V., Leerssen, J.听 and Liska, V.听(eds) Leiden: Brill. Pp. 53-65.
Delanty, G. 2018听 鈥楨urope in the World: From a Regional Integration to a Global Power鈥 in Outhwaite, W. and Turner, S. (eds)听Handbook of Political Sociology. London: Sage.
Delanty, G. 2017 鈥楢 Divided Nation in a Divided Europe:Emerging Cleavages and the Crisis of European Integration鈥 inBrexit: Sociological Responses, edited by William Outhwaite. London: Anthem Press.
Delanty, G. 2017 鈥榃hat happens when one culture meets another? Cultural encounters and European civilisation鈥櫶Interactions.听Centuries of Commerce, Combat and Creation, Temporary Exhibition Catalogue, Brussels: House of European History/European Parliament.
Delanty, G. 2014 鈥楨urope鈥檚 Nemesis?: European Integration and Contradictions of Capitalism and Democracy鈥 in Champeau, S., Closa, C. Innerarity, D. and Maduro, M. (eds) The Future of Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice after the Euro-Crisis New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
Delanty, G. (with Paul Blokker) 2009 鈥楨uropean Identity, post-Western Europe, and Complex Cultural Diversity鈥, in Browning. C. and Lehti, M. (eds). The Struggle for the West: a divided and contested legacy. London: Routledge.
Delanty, G. 2009 鈥楾he European Heritage: history, memory and time鈥. In: Handbook of European Studies. Edited by C. Rumford. London: Sage.
听Delanty, G. 听鈥楽ociology鈥櫶Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology听2nd听Edition. Oxford: Wiley. 8000 word article (revised version of the first edition entry)
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Other pieces/short essays:
Delanty, G. 2023听 鈥楽ocial Theory: Legacies and Future Directions鈥. An Interview with Gerard Delanty by Daniel Chernilo and Aldo Mascare帽o European Journal of Social Theory. 26 (3): 408-23.
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Delanty, G. 2022 鈥楾he Crisis of Stability and the Iddea of Europe Today鈥
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[219] 听Delanty, G. 2022听 鈥楾he Social Conditions of Democratic Governance: some historical and sociological reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic鈥. In: Multi-level governance in Europe The case of covid-19 pandemics Jan Zielonka (ed.) ARENA Report 7/22
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Delanty, G.听 2022 Review of Phillip Felsch The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990. Translated by Tony Crawford.听 Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. European Journal of Social Theory Vol 25.
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Delanty, G. 2022 鈥楾he Politics of Climate Change and Migration: A Sociological Perspective on 鈥淐limate Migration鈥 鈥. European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona
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Delanty, G. 2020 鈥楽ix Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus: Critical Perspectives on the Coronavirus Pandemic鈥 LEQS Paper No. 156, May 2020
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Delanty, G. 2016 鈥楻eview Essay:听The Politics of Everyday Europe鈥听Current History听Vol. 115, No 779. PP. 117-9.
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Delanty, G. 2017 鈥楾hinking Beyond the European Crisis: reflections after Brexit鈥 Newsletter of the Cicero Foundation http://www.cicerofoundation.org/
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Delanty. G. 2017 Editor of 20th Anniversary Special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory 20 (1).听 Introduction: 鈥楾he European Journal of Social Theory at Twenty Years鈥 the European Journal of Social Theory 20 (1): 4-8.
Delanty, G. 2017听 听鈥楽ociology in the Anthropocene: New Challenges and Old Problems鈥, Proceedings of the Brazilian Sociological Association, Annual Conference 2017. Published in Portuguese translation
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Delanty, G. 鈥楶ublic Space and the Tasks of Cultural Heritage Today: Between Remembrance and Regeneration鈥. Strassbourg: Council of Europe.
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听In English and French