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1. Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory

   Edited by Gerard Delanty, Stephen P. Turner

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and...

   To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere

   Edited by Gerard Delanty, Liana Giorgi, Monica Sassatelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere,...

   To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies

   Edited by Gerard Delanty

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. Where, earlier, it had largely been a term associated with moral and political philosophy, cosmopolitanism has now become a widely-used term in the social sciences. It is now integral to...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Europe and Asia beyond East and West

   Edited by Gerard Delanty

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians - show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
5. Cosmopolitanism

   Edited by David Inglis, Gerard Delanty

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

   A term of antique provenance, ‘cosmopolitanism’ has developed and cohered into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural analysis. However, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of the available research exploring the many, often controversial, issues attendant upon...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
6. Community

   2nd edition, 2nd Edition

   By Gerard Delanty

   Series: Key Ideas

   The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics.Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to...

   Published November 17th 2009 by Routledge
7. Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory

   Edited by Gerard Delanty

   This innovative publication maps out the broad and interdisciplinary field of contemporary European social theory. It covers sociological theory, the wider theoretical traditions in the social sciences including cultural and political theory, anthropological theory, social philosophy and social...

   Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge
8. Rethinking Europe

   Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization

   By Gerard Delanty, Chris Rumford

   Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that...

   Published June 15th 2005 by Routledge
9. Community

   By Gerard Delanty

   Series: Key Ideas

   The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics.Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to...

   Published January 22nd 2003 by Routledge