Nationalism and Social Theory

Gerard Delanty is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool Dr. O′Mahony received his doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1991 and spent the next seven years as Director of the Centre for European Social Research before taking up a position as lecturer in Sociology at UCC in 2000. He theoretical interests cover a wide span but are currently focused on questions of public participation and the public sphere. He has wide-ranging methodological expertise in a variety of research approaches and techniques. He has conducted and coordinated wide-ranging research, primarily focused on questions of environment, the societal implications of new technology and identity and ideology in Ireland and internationally. He is currently working on a book on the Public Sphere of Biotechnology in Britain and Ireland and the UK.

• IntroductionModernity, Nationalism and Social TheoryA General OutlineModernity and NationalismTransformation and IntegrationNationalism and StructureNationalism and CultureNationalism, Agency and Social ChangeTowards a Typology of Forms of NationalismThe New Radical NationalismsGlobalization, Xenophobia and Cultural ViolenceDebating the Limits of NationalismPossibilities for Postnationalism

`An outstanding contribution to the sociology of nationalism and modernity, Delanty and O’Mahony have developed a major sociological perspective on the kaleidoscopic world of nationalism, patriotism, xenophobia and fundamentalism.′ - Bryan S. Turner University of Cambridge