Castells - The Power of Identity

The Information Age

Economy, Society, and Culture

Volume II

The Power of Identity

Originally published in 1997, The Power of Identity, the second volume in The Information Age trilogy, saw the writing on the global wall recognizing identity as a defining principle of social organization and analyzing the importance of cultural, religious, and national identities as sources of meaning for people, and the implications of these identities for social movements.

Now with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, this second edition analyzes the major social and political events directly derived from the diagnosis of the book: Al Qaeda and fundamentalist terror networks; the Iraq War; the geopolitics of fear under the Bush Administration; and the Internet-based networking of global social movements fighting for global justice.

Studying grassroots mobilizations against the unfettered globalization of wealth and power, and the formation of alternative projects of social organization, this book charts the transformation of the nation-state into a network state, and the submission of political representation to the dictates of media politics.

Table of Contents for Volumes I and III of Manuel Castells The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture

Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society

Prologue: The Net and the Self

1 The Information Technology Revolution

2 The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization, Networking

3 The Network Enterprise: The Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy

4 The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Job-less, and Flex-timers

5 The Culture of Real Virtuality: The Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks

6 The Space of Flows

7 The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time

Conclusion: The Network Society

Volume III: End of Millennium

A Time of Change

1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Captalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion

3 The Perverse Connection: The Global Criminal Economy

4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State

5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State

Conclusion: Making Sense of our World

This second edition with a new preface first published 2010
2010 Manuel Castells
Edition history: Blackwell Publishing Ltd (1e, 1997), Blackwell Publishing Ltd (2e, 2004)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Castells, Manuel, 1942
The power of identity / Manuel Castells. 2nd ed.
p. cm. (The information age: economy, society, and culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-9687-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Information society. 2. Social movements. 3. Information technologySocial aspects. 4. Information technologyPolitical aspects. 5. Identity (Philosophical concept) I. Title.
HM851.C37 2009
303.48409dc22
2009030162

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