The Power of Identity

by Castells, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781405196871
• ISBN10: 1405196874
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world Applies Castells' hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world A brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world Analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movementThrows new light on the dynamics of global and local change.

Author Biography

Manuel Castells is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T., and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, C. Wright Mills Award, the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association, and the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award from the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 14 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. He has authored 22 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

List of Tables

List of Charts

Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of Identity

Preface and Acknowledgments 2003

Acknowledgments 1996

Our World, our Lives

Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society

The Construction of Identity

God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity

Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism

God save me! American Christian fundamentalism

Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images?

Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible

States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv)

Nations without a state: Catalunya

Nations of the information age

Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society

Territorial Identities: The Local Community

Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age

The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order

Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements

Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement

Who are the Zapatistas?

The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals

The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media

The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution

Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement

The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network

The Patriots' banners

Who are the Patriots?

The militia, the Patriots, and American society

The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo

Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo

Aum's beliefs and methodology

Aum and Japanese society

Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God

The goals and values of al-Qaeda

The evolving process of al-Qaeda's struggle

The mujahedeen and their support bases

The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden

From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks

Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda

9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement?

''No Globalization without Representation!'': The Anti-globalization Movement

''El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido'': the diversity of the anti-globalization movement

The values and goals of the movement against globalization

Networking as a political way of being

An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants

The movement in context: social change and institutional change

The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order

Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization

The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement

The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology

The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists' Challenge

Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media

Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier

The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age

The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family

Women at Work

Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement

American feminism: a discontinuous continuity

Is feminism global?

Feminism: an inducive polyphony

The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements

Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei

Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco

Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family

Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism

The incredibly shrinking family

The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism

Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality

Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world

The End of Patriarchalism?

Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State?

Globalization and the State

The transnational core of national economies

A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy

Globalization and the welfare state

Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators

A lawless world?

The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism

Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states

Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state

The Identification of the State

The Return of the State

The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters

American unilateralism and the new geopolitics

The Iraq War and its aftermath

The consequences of American unilateralism

The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State

Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy

Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy

Introduction: The Politics of Society

Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age

Politics and the media: the citizens' connection

Show politics and political marketing: the American model

Is European politics being ''Americanized''?

Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre

Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru

Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal

The Crisis of Democracy

Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy?

Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society

Methodological Appendix

Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III

References

Index

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