The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II, 2nd Edition

by Manuel Castells (University of California, Berkeley)

• ISBN13: 9781405107136
• ISBN10: 1405107138
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Power of Identity is the second volume of Manuel Castells' trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. It deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. It analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identities as sources of meaning for people, and the implications of these identities for social movements. It studies grassroots mobilizations against the unfettered globalization of wealth and power, and considers the formation of alternative projects of social organization, as represented by the environmental movement and the women's movement. It also analyzes the crisis of the nation-state and its transformation into a network state, and the effects on political democracies of the difficulties of international governance and the submission of political representation to the dictates of media politics and the politics of scandal. This substantially expanded second edition updates and elaborates the analysis of these themes, adding new sections on al-Qaeda and global terrorist networks, on the anti-globalization movement, on American unilateralism and the conflicts of global governance, on the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world, and on the theory of the network state.

Author Biography

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and Research Professor of Information Society at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona. Before being appointed to Berkeley in 1979 he was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris. He has been a visiting professor at 16 universities around the world, and has received honorary doctorates from several universities. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the C. Wright Mills Award, and the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association. He is a member of the European Academy. He has published 25 books, among which is the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, first published by Blackwell in 1996–8, and translated into 20 languages.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
List of Tables	xii
List of Charts	xiv
Preface and Acknowledgments 2003	xv
Acknowledgments 1996	xxi
Our World, our Lives	1	(4)
1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society	5	(66)
The Construction of Identity	6	(6)
God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity	12	(18)
Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism	13	(10)
God save me! American Christian fundamentalism	23	(7)
Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images?	30	(24)
Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarsty)	35	(10)
Nations without a state: Catalunya	45	(9)
Nations of the information age	54	(2)
Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society	56	(7)
Territorial Identities: The Local Community	63	(5)
Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age	68	(3)
2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order	71	(97)
Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements	72	(3)
Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement	75	(12)
Who are the Zapatistas?	77	(3)
The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals	80	(2)
The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media	82	(3)
The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution	85	(2)
Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement	87	(13)
The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network	90	(5)
The Patriots' banners	95	(3)
Who are the Patriots?	98	(1)
The militia, the Patriots, and American society	99	(1)
The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo	100	(8)
Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo	101	(3)
Aum's beliefs and methodology	104	(1)
Aum and Japanese society	105	(3)
Al-Qaeda, 9111, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God	108	(37)
The goals and values of al-Qaeda	111	(4)
The evolving process of al-Qaeda struggle	115	(4)
The mujahedeen and their support bases	119	(5)
The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden	124	(4)
From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks	128	(7)
Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda	135	(5)
9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement?	140	(5)
"No Globalization without Representation!": The Anti-globalization Movement	145	(15)
"El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido": the diversity of the anti-globalization movement	147	(5)
The values and goals of the movement against globalization	152	(2)
Networking as a political way of being	154	(2)
An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants	156	(2)
The movement in context: social change and institutional change	158	(2)
The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order	160	(6)
Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization	166	(2)
3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement	168	(24)
The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology	170	(9)
The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists' Challenge	179	(7)
Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media	186	(4)
Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier	190	(2)
4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age	192	(111)
The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family	196	(19)
Women at Work	215	(19)
Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement	234	(27)
American feminism: a discontinuous continuity	235	(8)
Is feminism global?	243	(9)
Feminism: an inducive polyphony	252	(9)
The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements	261	(19)
Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei	266	(5)
Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco	271	(8)
Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family	279	(1)
Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism	280	(21)
The incredibly shrinking family	280	(8)
The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism	288	(6)
Body identity: the (D)construction of sexuality	294	(5)
Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world	299	(2)
The End of Patriarchalism?	301	(2)
5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State?	303	(64)
Globalization and the State	304	(19)
The transnational core of national economies	305	(2)
A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy	307	(5)
Globalization and the welfare state	312	(4)
Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators	316	(5)
A lawless world?	321	(2)
The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism	323	(5)
Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states	328	(4)
Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state	332	(5)
The Identification of the State	337	(3)
The Return of the State	340	(16)
The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters	340	(4)
American unilateralism and the new geopolitics	344	(5)
The Iraq Ular and its aftermath	349	(4)
The consequences of American unilateralism	353	(3)
The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State	356	(8)
Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy	364	(3)
6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy	367	(52)
Introduction: The Politics of Society	367	(4)
Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age	371	(20)
Politics and the media: the citizens' connection	371	(4)
Show politics and political marketing: the American model	375	(6)
Is European politics being "Americanized"?	381	(5)
Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru	386	(5)
Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal	391	(11)
The Crisis of Democracy	402	(12)
Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy?	414	(5)
Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society	419	(10)
Methodological Appendix	429	(35)
Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III	464	(2)
References	466	(46)
Index	512