Showing papers by "Manuel Castells published in 1997"

The power of identity

Abstract: From the Publisher: Manuel Castells describes the origins, purpose and effect of proactive movements, such as feminism and environmentalism, which aim to transform human relationships at their most fundamental level; and of reactive movements that build trenches of resistance on behalf of God, nation, ethnicity, family, or locality. The fundamental categories of existence, the author shows, are threatened by the combined, contradictory assault of techno-economic forces and transformative social movements, each using the new power of the media to promote their ambitions. Caught between these opposing trends, he argues, the nation-state is called into question, drawing into its crisis the very notion of political democracy. The author moves thematically between the United States, Western Europe, Russia, Mexico, Bolivia, the Islamic World, China, and Japan, seeking to understand a variety of social processes that are, he contends, closely inter-related in function and meaning. This is a book of profound importance for understanding how the world will be transformed by the beginning of the next century.

Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture

Abstract: From the Publisher: Manuel Castells describes the origins, purpose and effect of proactive movements, such as feminism and environmentalism, which aim to transform human relationships at their most fundamental level; and of reactive movements that build trenches of resistance on behalf of God, nation, ethnicity, family, or locality The fundamental categories of existence, the author shows, are threatened by the combined, contradictory assault of techno-economic forces and transformative social movements, each using the new power of the media to promote their ambitions Caught between these opposing trends, he argues, the nation-state is called into question, drawing into its crisis the very notion of political democracy The author moves thematically between the United States, Western Europe, Russia, Mexico, Bolivia, the Islamic World, China, and Japan, seeking to understand a variety of social processes that are, he contends, closely inter-related in function and meaning This is a book of profound importance for understanding how the world will be transformed by the beginning of the next century

End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture

Abstract: From the Publisher: The final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity. He studies empirically the collapse of the Soviet Union, tracing it back to the incapacity of industrial statism to manage the transition to the Information Age. He shows the rise of inequality, polarization, and social exclusion throughout the world, focusing on Africa, on urban poverty, and on children's plight. He documents the formation of a global criminal economy that deeply affects economies and politics in many countries. He analyzes the political and cultural foundations of the emergence of the Asian Pacific as the most dynamic region in the global economy. And he reflects on the contradictions of European unfication, proposing the concept of the network state. In the general conclusion of the trilogy, included in this volume, Castells draws together the threads of his arguments and his findings, presenting a systematic interpretation of our world in this end of millennium.

The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society

Abstract: Manuel Castells, (bivši) neomarksist, autor je kapitalnih djela s područja urbane sociologije i urbanih društvenih pokreta. Predavao je na dvadesetak prestižnih svjetskih sveučilišta, a redovni je profesor na Berkeleyu. Njegov magnum opus, rezultat desetogodišnjeg izučavanja suvremenih društava, kroz brojne interkulturalne analize oslikava čovječanstvo na prijelazu u informacijsko doba, razapeto između net i self; između funkcije i značenja.