Gerard Delanty
Professor

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I edit the European Journal of Social Theory, a quarterly published by Sage.  

http://est.sagepub.com/  Email address: ejst@sussex.ac.uk The EJST was founded in 1998 by Gerard Delanty and has been an ISI listed journal since 2010. 

  

A Selection of Recent Publications (since 2009)

Books:

 

Delanty, G. forthcoming 2024 Senses of the Future: Conflicting Ideas of the Future in the World Today. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Delanty, G. (with Neal Harris) 2023 Capitalism and its Critics. London: Routledge.

 

Delanty, G. 2020 Critical Theory and Social Transformation: Crises of the Present and Future Possibilities. London: Routledge.                 

 

Delanty, G. 2018 The European Heritage: A Critical Re-Interpretation. London: Routledge. 

 

Delanty, G.  2019 2nd edition Formations of European Modernity: A Historical and Political Sociology of Europe. London: Palgrave. 

 

Delanty, G. 2018 3rd Edition Community, Routledge: London. 

 

Delanty, G. 2009 The Cosmopolitan Imagination: the Renewal of Critical Social Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Edited Books:

Delanty, G. (with Stephen Turner) (eds) 2022  2^nd edition, Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory. London: Routledge

 

Delanty, G. (ed.)  2021 Pandemics, Society and Politics: Critical Reflections on the Pandemic. Berlin: De Gruyter.  

 

Delanty, G. (ed.)  2018 2nd edition Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies. London: Routledge.

 

Delanty, G. (with David Inglis) (ed.) 2010 Cosmopolitanism: Critical Concepts in  the Social Sciences. 4 vols. London. Routledge.

 

Delanty, G. (with M. Sassatelli and Giorgi, L.)  2011 (eds) Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere London: Routledge

 

 

Journal Articles:

Delanty, G. (with Neal Harris) ‘What is Capitalism? Towards a working definition’. Social Science Information
https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184231203878

Delanty, G. 2023 ‘Introduction to the Special Issue on the Russo-Ukrainian War: A New European War?A New European War? Considerations on the Russo-Ukrainian War’ European Journal of Social Theory 26 (4).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13684310231174098

 

Delanty, G. 2021 ‘Imagining the Future: Social Struggles, the Post-National Domain and Major Contemporary Social Transformations’ Journal of Sociology 57 (1): 27-46   https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783320969860  

 

Delanty, G  (with Neal Harris) 2021 ‘Critical Theory and Technology: The Frankfurt School Revisited’  Thesis Eleven  166 (1): 88-108.  https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136211002055

 

Delanty, G. 2021 ‘Return of the Nation-State? De-Europeanization and the Limits of Neo-Nationalism’ Journal of Contemporary European Research 17 (2): 103-115.  https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v17i2.1180

 

Delanty, G.  2021 ‘Futures of Sustainability: Perspectives on Social Imaginaries and Social Transformation’Social Science Information. 60 (2): 159-67. https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018421999562

 

Delanty, G. 2020. ‘La sociologie aujourd’hui et l’héritage classique’. Revue du MAUSS 56 (2): 129-40 [Sociology Today and the Classical Legacy]

 

Delanty, G.  2020 ‘Critical Theory as a Critique of UnSustainability: “Damaged Life” in the Anthropocene’. Estudios Públicos vol 159  (in English and in Spanish). DOI: https://doi.org/10.38178/07183089/0604191216-e

 https://www.cepchile.cl/cep/site/docs/20200824/20200824144957/rev159_gdelanty_eng.pdf

 https://www.cepchile.cl/cep/site/docs/20200824/20200824144957/rev159_gdelanty.pdf [in Spanish]

 

Delanty, G. 2019  ‘The Future of Capitalism: Trends, Scenarios and Prospects for the Future’ Journal of Classical Sociology. 19:1

 

Delanty, G.  2019  ‘What does Self-Determination Mean Today? The Resurgence of Nationalism and European Integration in Question’ Global Discourse  9 (1)

 

Delanty, G.  2017  ‘Entangled Memories and Transnational Histories: Current Trends and Directions for Research on the European Cultural Heritage’ European Legacy  vol. 22 (2): 129-45.

 

Delanty, G. and Mota, A. 2017 ‘Governing the Anthropocene: Agency, Goveranace and Knowledge’ European Journal of Social Theory 20 (1): 9-38.

 

Delanty, G. 2016 ‘The Making of European Society: contesting methodological nationalism’ Special issue of Innovation: The European Journal of Social  Sciences 29 (1): 3-15.

 

Delanty, G. 2016 ‘Multiple Europes, Multiple Modernities: Conceptualizing the Plurality of Europe’ Comparative European Politics 14 (4): 398-416

 

Delanty, G. 2016 ‘A Transnational World? The Implications of Transnationalism for Comparative Historical Sociology’ Social Imaginaries 2 (2).

 

Delanty, G. 2016 ‘Nachdenken über die Beudeutung von Solidarität und heutiges Europa,’ Sozialwisenschaftlische Literatur Rundschau   73: 123-32.

 

Delanty, G. 2015  ‘Europe in World Regional Perspective: Formations of Modernity and Major Historical Transformations’ British Journal of Sociology 66 (3): 420-40

 

Delanty, G. and Mota, M.  2015 ‘Eisenstadt, Brazil and the Multiple Modernities Framework: revisions and reconsiderations’  Journal of Classical Sociology 15 (2): 39-57.

 

Delanty, G.  2015 ‘Europe and the Emergence of Modernity’ History, Culture and Modernity vol 3, no. 3

https://www.history-culture-modernity.org/articles/10.18352/hcm.491/

 

Delanty, G. 2014 ‘The Prospects of Cosmopolitanism and the Possibility of Global Justice’Journal of Sociology 50 (2): 213-228.

 

Delanty, G.  2014 ‘Not all is Lost in Translation: World Varieties of Cosmopolitanism’Cultural Sociology 8 (4): 374-91 

Published in Spanish translation in Papers: Revista de Sociologia  2015 vol 100, no. 3: 282-203   Availble online  http://papers.uab.cat/issue/view/v100-n3

 

Delanty, G.  2014 ‘Introduction: Perspectives on Crisis and Critique in Europe Today,’ European Journal of Social Theory on Europe in Crisis vol 17 (3): 207-218.  

Delanty, G. 2012 ‘A Cosmopolitan Approach to the Explanation of Social Change’ Sociological Review 62 (2): 333-54.

 

Delanty, G. 2012 ‘Europe in an Age of Austerity: Contradictions of Capitalism and Democracy’ International Critical Thought 2 (4): 445-55.

 

Delanty. G. 2012 ‘The Historical Regions of Europe: Civilizational Backgrounds and Multiple Routes to Modernity’ Historická sociologie 3 (1-2) Available on-line http://historicalsociology.cz/abstracts/1-2-2012/gerard-delanty

 

Delanty, G. 2011 ‘Varieties of Critique in Sociological Theory and their Methodological Implications for Social Research’ Irish Journal of Sociology 19 (1): 98-62

 

Delanty, G. 2011 ‘Cultural Diversity, Democracy and the Prospects of Cosmopolitanism: A Theory of Cultural Encounters’ British Journal of Sociology 62: 4: 633-56.

 

Delanty, G.  2010 ‘Civilizational Analysis and Critical Theory’ Thesis Eleven No 100: 46-52

 

Book Chapters:

Delanty, G. 2022 ‘Capitalism and Crisis: Thinking through capitalist crisis with Schumpeter and Polanyi’. In: Capitalism, Democracy and Socialism: Critical Debates, edited by James Chamberlain and Albena Azmanova. Berlin: Springer. PP 241-58.

Delanty, G. 2022 ‘Sociology Today and the Classical Legacy’ In: Where is Sociology Going? Ideology or Objective Social Science, edited by Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin, and Stephen Turner. London: Routledge.

Delanty, G. 2020 ‘Challenges of Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Imagination:  The Implications of the Anthropocene’. Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter edited by Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisbourne, Sandra Halperin, Claudia Lueders. London: Routledge

Delanty, G. 2020 ‘Wann beginnt die Zukunft? Überlegungen zu Temporalität, Nachhaltigkeit und Zukunftsszenarien‘ [When Does the Future Begin?  Temporality, Sustainability and Future Prospects]. In: Adloff, F. and Neckel, S (eds) Imaginationen von Nachhaltigkeit. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.  [In German]

Delanty, G.  2020 ‘Multiple and Entangled Modernities, Cosmopolitanism and Translation’. In: Routledge Handbook of Translation and Globalization, Esperança Bielsa and Dionysios Kapsaskis (eds). London: Routledge.

Delanty, G. 2021 ‘Introduction: 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  ‘The Pathogenesis of Brexit: Pathologies of British Political Modernity’. In: Harris, N. (ed.)  Critical Theory and Social Pathology. pp 23-45. London: Palgrave.

Delanty, G.  2021‘Can the European Heritage be Redeemed?
Confessions of an Europeanist’. In.: The Idea of Europe: The Clash of Projections, edited by Biti, V., Leerssen, J.  and Liska, V. (eds) Leiden: Brill. Pp. 53-65.

Delanty, G. 2018  ‘Europe in the World: From a Regional Integration to a Global Power’ in Outhwaite, W. and Turner, S. (eds) Handbook of Political Sociology. London: Sage.

Delanty, G. 2017 ‘A Divided Nation in a Divided Europe:Emerging Cleavages and the Crisis of European Integration’ inBrexit: Sociological Responses, edited by William Outhwaite. London: Anthem Press.

Delanty, G. 2017 ‘What happens when one culture meets another? Cultural encounters and European civilisation’ Interactions. Centuries of Commerce, Combat and Creation, Temporary Exhibition Catalogue, Brussels: House of European History/European Parliament.

Delanty, G. 2014 ‘Europe’s Nemesis?: European Integration and Contradictions of Capitalism and Democracy’ 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 ‘European Identity, post-Western Europe, and Complex Cultural Diversity’, in Browning. C. and Lehti, M. (eds). The Struggle for the West: a divided and contested legacy. London: Routledge.

Delanty, G. 2009 ‘The European Heritage: history, memory and time’. In: Handbook of European Studies. Edited by C. Rumford. London: Sage.

 Delanty, G.  ‘Sociology’ Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology 2^nd Edition. Oxford: Wiley. 8000 word article (revised version of the first edition entry)

 

Other pieces/short essays:

Delanty, G. 2023  ‘Social Theory: Legacies and Future Directions’. An Interview with Gerard Delanty by Daniel Chernilo and Aldo Mascareño European Journal of Social Theory. 26 (3): 408-23.

https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310231179145

 

Delanty, G. 2022 ‘The Crisis of Stability and the Iddea of Europe Today’

 Екуменічний Соціальний Тиждень - The Crisis of Stability and the Idea of Europe Today (esweek.org.ua)

[219]  Delanty, G. 2022  ‘The Social Conditions of Democratic Governance: some historical and sociological reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic’. In: Multi-level governance in Europe The case of covid-19 pandemics Jan Zielonka (ed.) ARENA Report 7/22

https://www.eu3d.uio.no/publications/eu3d-reports/eu3d-report-7-22.html

 

Delanty, G.  2022 Review of Phillip Felsch The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990. Translated by Tony Crawford.  Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022. European Journal of Social Theory Vol 25.

https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310221099208   

 

Delanty, G. 2022 ‘The Politics of Climate Change and Migration: A Sociological Perspective on “Climate Migration” ’. European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona

 https://www.iemed.org/events/the-politics-of-climate-change-and-migration-s-sociological-interpretation/

 

Delanty, G. 2020 ‘Six Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus: Critical Perspectives on the Coronavirus Pandemic’ LEQS Paper No. 156, May 2020

 http://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/Assets/Documents/LEQS-Discussion-Papers/LEQSPaper156.pdf

 

Delanty, G. 2016 ‘Review Essay: The Politics of Everyday Europe’ Current History Vol. 115, No 779. PP. 117-9.

 

Delanty, G. 2017 ‘Thinking Beyond the European Crisis: reflections after Brexit’ Newsletter of the Cicero Foundation http://www.cicerofoundation.org/

 

Delanty. G. 2017 Editor of 20^th Anniversary Special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory 20 (1).  Introduction: ‘The European Journal of Social Theory at Twenty Years’ the European Journal of Social Theory 20 (1): 4-8.

Delanty, G. 2017   ‘Sociology in the Anthropocene: New Challenges and Old Problems’, Proceedings of the Brazilian Sociological Association, Annual Conference 2017. Published in Portuguese translation https://blogdosociofilo.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/a-sociologia-no-antropoceno-novos-desafios-velhos-problemas-por-gerard-delanty/

 

Delanty, G. ‘Public Space and the Tasks of Cultural Heritage Today: Between Remembrance and Regeneration’. Strassbourg: Council of Europe.

 

https://rm.coe.int/council-of-europe-framework-convention-on-the-value-of-cultural-herita/16808afd09  In English and French