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

by Castells, Manuel

• ISBN13: 9781557868749
• ISBN10: 1557868743
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

This is an account of the two great and conflicting trends now shaping the world: globalization and identity.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
List of Charts	xiii
Acknowledgments	xiv
Our World, our Lives	1	(4)
Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society	5	(63)
The Construction of Identity	6	(6)
God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity	12	(15)
Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism	13	(8)
God save me! American Christian fundamentalism	21	(6)
Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images?	27	(25)
Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv)	33	(9)
Nations without a state: Catalunya	42	(9)
Nations of the information age	51	(1)
Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity in the Network Society	52	(8)
Territorial Identities: the Local Community	60	(5)
Conclusion: the Cultural Communes of the Information Age	65	(3)
The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order	68	(42)
Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements	68	(4)
Mexico's Zapatistas: the First Informational Guerrilla Movement	72	(12)
Who are the Zapatistas?	74	(2)
The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals	76	(3)
The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media	79	(2)
The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution	81	(3)
Up in Arms against the New World Order: the American Militia and the Patriot Movement in the 1990s	84	(13)
The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network	87	(5)
The Patriots' banners	92	(3)
Who are the Patriots?	95	(1)
The militia, the Patriots, and American Society in the 1990s	96	(1)
The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo	97	(7)
Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo	98	(3)
Aum's beliefs and methodology	101	(1)
Aum and Japanese society	102	(2)
The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order	104	(4)
Conclusion: the Challenge to Globalization	108	(2)
The Greening of the Self: the Environmental Movement	110	(24)
The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: a Typology	112	(9)
The Meaning of Greening: Social Issues and the Ecologists' Challenge	121	(7)
Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media	128	(3)
Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier	131	(3)
The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age	134	(109)
The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family	138	(18)
Women at Work	156	(19)
Sisterhood is Powerful: the Feminist Movement	175	(27)
American Feminism: a discontinuous continuity	176	(8)
Is feminism global?	184	(10)
Feminism: an inducive polyphony	194	(8)
The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements	202	(19)
Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei	206	(6)
Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco	212	(8)
Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family	220	(1)
Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism	221	(21)
The incredibly shrinking family	221	(7)
The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism	228	(7)
Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality	235	(5)
Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world	240	(2)
The End of Patriarchalism?	242	(1)
A Powerless State?	243	(66)
Globalization and the State	244	(18)
The transnational core of national economies	245	(1)
A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy	246	(6)
Globalization and the welfare state	252	(2)
Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators	254	(5)
A lawless world?	259	(3)
The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism	262	(4)
Global Governance and the Super Nation-state	266	(3)
Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state	269	(5)
The Identification of the State	274	(2)
Contemporary Crises of Nation-states: Mexico's PRI State and the US Federal Government in the 1990s	276	(23)
NAFTA, Chiapas, Tijuana, and the agony of the PRI state	277	(10)
The people versus the state: the fading legitimacy of US federal government	287	(10)
Structure and process in the crisis of the state	297	(2)
The State, Violence, and Surveillance: from Big Brother to Little Sisters	299	(4)
The Crisis of the Nation-state and the Theory of the State	303	(4)
Conclusion: the King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy	307	(2)
Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy	309	(45)
Introduction: the Politics of Society	309	(4)
Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age	313	(20)
Politics and the media: the citizens' connection	313	(4)
Show politics and political marketing: the American model	317	(7)
Is European politics being ``Americanized?''	324	(4)
Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a a Uru	328	(5)
Informational Politics in Action: the Politics of Scandal	333	(9)
The Crisis of Democracy	342	(7)
Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy?	349	(5)
Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society	354	(9)
Methodological Appendix	363	(32)
Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III	395	(2)
References	397	(38)
Index	435