{"product_id":"the-power-of-identity-isbn-9781405196871","title":"The Power of Identity","description":"In this second volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Information Age\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExtensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eApplies Castells’ hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThrows new light on the dynamics of global and local change\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Figures xii  \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Charts xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the 2010 Edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments 2003 xxxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 1996 xliii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur World, our Lives 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Construction of Identity 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUmma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod save me! American Christian fundamentalism 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images? 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv) 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNations without a state: Catalunya 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNations of the information age 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ein the Network Society 56 Territorial Identities: The Local Community 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho are the Zapatistas? 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUp in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Patriots’ banners 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho are the Patriots? 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe militia, the Patriots, and American society 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAsahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAum's beliefs and methodology 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAum and Japanese society 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAl-Qaeda, 9\/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe goals and values of al-Qaeda 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe evolving process of al-Qaeda’s struggle 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe mujahedeen and their support bases 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNetworking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9\/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement? 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"No Globalization without Representation!\": The Anti-globalization Movement 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido\": the diversity of the anti-globalization movement 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe values and goals of the movement against globalization 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNetworking as a political way of being 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe movement in context: social change and institutional change 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Challenge to Globalization 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement 168\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists’ Challenge 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnvironmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnvironmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age 192\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crisis of the Patriarchal Family 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen at Work 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican feminism: a discontinuous continuity 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs feminism global? 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminism: an inducive polyphony 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSumming up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe incredibly shrinking family 280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBody identity: the (re)construction of sexuality 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of Patriarchalism? 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? 303\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization and the State 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transnational core of national economies 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization and the welfare state 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA lawless world? 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Governance and Networks of Nation-states 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdentities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Identification of the State 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Return of the State 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican unilateralism and the new geopolitics 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Iraq War and its aftermath 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe consequences of American unilateralism 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy 367\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Politics of Society 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedia as the Space of Politics in the Information Age 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitics and the media: the citizens’ connection 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShow politics and political marketing: the American model 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs European politics being \"Americanized\"? 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crisis of Democracy 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Reconstructing Democracy? 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Social Change in the Network Society 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodological Appendix 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix for Tables 5.1 and 5.2 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix for Figure 6.9: Level of Support for Mainstream Parties in National Elections, 1980–2002 456\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary of Contents of Volumes I and III 464\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 466\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 512\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eManuel Castells\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Professor of Sociology 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 Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 16 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. He has authored 23 books, among which are: the trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, first published by Blackwell in 1996–8, which has been translated into 20 languages; and \u003ci\u003eCommunication Power\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). In this second volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Information Age\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \"Every now and then one reads a book of social science that is uplifting and mind expanding. These books are ambitious and lustrous, teaching us much about our world. Such is this work from the brilliant sociologist Manuel Castells. There is no other sociological work today that brings together in one panoramic expanse so many of the changes now occurring. This is a story not simply of global economic change, but of cultural upheavals. It is a tale not simply of the decline of sovereign states, but of the emergence of the new bases of power. And it is a narrative not merely about computer technology or the media, but of the very terms in which those agents work.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eAnthony M. Orum\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"A magnum opus if ever there was one. In my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eFrank Webster\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A truly stunning achievement. A scholar who, with remarkable mastery, has brought his experience over a lifetime to bear on astonishingly diversified data set, pulling them together into a compelling account of the complex relationship between the progressive and the reactionary, the globalizing and particularizing forces that are transforming our perplexing world.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Barber\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990317416677,"sku":"NP9781405196871","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405196871.jpg?v=1761787330","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-power-of-identity-isbn-9781405196871","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}