Citizenship in a Global Age

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.

* 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.