Manuel Castells

by Stalder, Felix

• ISBN13: 9780745632773
• ISBN10: 0745632777
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-27
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

The book serves as both an excellent introduction to Manuel Castellss wide-ranging theories and an innovative critique which contributes to ongoing debates in the field. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, geography and the social sciences generally.

Author Biography

Felix Stalder, University of Applied Arts Social Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Transformation of Baselines	9	(33)
Neo-Marxism and the Renewal of Urban Sociology	13	(7)
Technology and Social Change	20	(8)
Informationalism	28	(5)
Epistemology	33	(5)
The Politics of Research	38	(4)
Production	42	(33)
Postindustrialism	43	(3)
The Economic Crisis of the 1970s	46	(2)
Internationalization of the Economy	48	(2)
Global Financial Markets	50	(5)
The Network Enterprise	55	(6)
Individualization of Labor	61	(4)
Informational Capitalism: Critical Issues	65	(10)
Experience	75	(29)
Social Movements as Subjects of History	76	(5)
Social Movements beyond the Local	81	(2)
Social Movements and the Creation of Identity	83	(4)
Two Case Studies	87	(12)
Social Movements and the Culture of Real Virtuality	99	(5)
The Network State and Informational Politics	104	(37)
The Theory of the State	106	(3)
The Crisis of the Nation-State	109	(6)
Informational Politics	115	(3)
The Reaffirmation of the State	118	(4)
The Rise of the Network State?	122	(6)
Power and Networks	128	(13)
Flows and Places	141	(26)
Castells's Theory of Space	142	(3)
The Space of Flows	145	(10)
The Time of Flows	155	(7)
Cities in the Space of Flows	162	(5)
The Logic of Networks	167	(32)
What is a Network?	169	(12)
Informational Networks	181	(4)
The Network Logic	185	(11)
Preeminence of Morphology over Action	196	(3)
Conclusion	199	(8)
Notes	207	(17)
Bibliography of Manuel Castells	224	(17)
Other References	241	(11)
Index	252