End of Millennium, Volume III: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, 2nd Edition

by Manuel Castells (University of California, Berkeley)

• ISBN13: 9780631221395
• ISBN10: 0631221395
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy is devoted to processes of global social change induced by interaction between networks and identity.

Author Biography

Manuel Castells, born in Spain in 1942, is Professor of Sociology, and of City and Regional Planning, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed in 1979, after teaching for 12 years at the University of Paris. He has also taught and researched at the universities of Madrid, Chile, Montreal, Campinas, Caracas, Mexico, Geneva, Copenhagen, Wisconsin, Boston, Southern California, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Amsterdam, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Hitotsubashi, and Barcelona. He has published 20 books, including The Informational City (1989). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of the C. Wright Mills Award, and of the Robert and Helen Lynd Award. He is a member of the European Academy. The Information Age is translated into 18 languages.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
List of Charts	xi
Acknoswledgments	xii
A Time of Change	1	(365)
The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union	5	(63)
The Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyperindustrialism	10	(16)
The Technology Question	26	(11)
The Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet Federalism	37	(9)
The Last Perestroika	46	(9)
Nationalism, Democracy, and the Disintegration of the Soviet State	55	(6)
The Scars of History, the Lessons for Theory, the Legacy for Society	61	(7)
The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion	68	(101)
Toward a Polarized World? A Global Overview	73	(9)
The De-humanization of Africa	82	(46)
Marginalization and selective integration of Sub-Saharan Africa in the informational-global economy	83	(9)
Africa's technological apartheid at the dawn of the Information Age	92	(3)
The predatory state	95	(4)
Zaire: the personal appropriation of the state	99	(2)
Nigeria: oil, ethnicity, and military predation	101	(4)
Ethnic identity, economic globalization, and state formation in Africa	105	(9)
Africa's plight	114	(7)
Africa's hope? The South African connection	121	(6)
Out of Africa or back to Africa? The politics and economics of self-reliance	127	(1)
The New American Dilemma: Inequality, Urban Poverty, and Social Exclusion in the Information Age	128	(25)
Dual America	129	(11)
The inner-city ghetto as a system of social exclusion	140	(8)
When the underclass goes to hell	148	(5)
Globalization, Over-exploitation, and Social Exclusion: the View from the Children	153	(12)
The sexual exploitation of children	158	(3)
The killing of children: war massacres and child soldiers	161	(1)
Why children are wasted	162	(3)
Conclusion: the Black Holes of Informational Capitalism	165	(4)
The Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy	169	(43)
Organizational Globalization of Crime, Cultural Identification of Criminals	171	(12)
The Pillage of Russia	183	(7)
The structural perspective	187	(1)
Identifying the actors	188	(2)
Mechanisms of Accumulation	190	(5)
Narcotrafico, Development, and Dependency in Latin America	195	(11)
What are the economic consequences of the drugs industry for Latin America?	200	(2)
Why Colombia?	202	(4)
The Impact of Global Crime on Economy, Politics, and Culture	206	(6)
Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State	212	(126)
The Changing Fortunes of the Asian Pacific	212	(8)
Heisei's Japan: Developmental State versus Information Society	220	(36)
A social model of the Japanese developmental process	222	(11)
Declining sun: the crisis of the Japanese model of development	233	(12)
The end of ``Nagatacho politics''	245	(3)
Hatten Hokka and Johoka Shakai: a contradictory relationship	248	(7)
Japan and the Pacific	255	(1)
Beheading the Dragon? Four Asian Tigers with a Dragon Head, and their Civil Societies	256	(51)
Understanding Asian development	257	(2)
Singapore: state nation-building via multinational corporations	259	(3)
South Korea: the state production of oligopolistic capitalism	262	(4)
Taiwan: flexible capitalism under the guidance of an inflexible state	266	(4)
Hong Kong model versus Hong Kong reality: small business in a world economy, and the colonial version of the welfare state	270	(6)
The breeding of the tigers: commonalities and dissimilarities in their process of economic development	276	(6)
The developmental state in East Asian industrialization: on the concept of the developmental state	282	(2)
The rise of the developmental state: from the politics of survival to the process of nation-building	284	(5)
The state and civil society in the restructuring of East Asia: how the developmental state succeeded in the development process	289	(4)
Divergent paths: Asian ``tigers'' in the economic crisis	293	(6)
Democracy, identity, and development in East Asia in the 1990s	299	(8)
Chinese Developmental Nationalism with Socialist Characteristics	307	(26)
The new Chinese revolution	308	(5)
Guanxi capitalism? China in the global economy	313	(4)
China's regional developmental states and the bureaucratic (capitalist) entrepreneurs	317	(3)
Weathering the storm? China in the Asian economic crisis	320	(3)
Democracy, development, and nationalism in the new China	323	(10)
Conclusion: Globalization and the State	333	(5)
The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State	338	(28)
European Unification as a Sequence of Defensive Reactions: a Half-century Perspective	340	(8)
Globalization and European Integration	348	(9)
Cultural Identity and European Unification	357	(4)
The Institutionalization of Europe: the Network State	361	(3)
European Identity or European Project?	364	(2)
Conclusion: Making Sense of our World	366	(26)
Genesis of a New World	367	(4)
A New Society	371	(11)
The New Avenues of Social Change	382	(2)
Beyond this Millennium	384	(5)
What is to be Done?	389	(1)
Finale	390	(2)
Summary of Contents of Volumes I and II	392	(2)
References	394	(33)
Index	427