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Manuel Castells » (New Edition)

Authors: Felix Stalder
ISBN-13: 9780745632773, ISBN-10: 0745632777
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Polity Press
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: New Edition

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

First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work
Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformations
Distills the central ideas in Castells work into an accessible and concise introduction for undergraduate students
Explores Castells writings on the network society, informational capitalism and democracy in crisis
Provides a critical analysis of Castells thought in relation to ongoing debates about globalization

1	Transformation of baselines	9
	Neo-Marxism and the renewal of urban sociology	13
	Technology and social change	20
	Informationalism	28
	Epistemology	33
	The politics of research	38
2	Production	42
	Postindustrialism	43
	The economic crisis of the 1970s	46
	Internationalization of the economy	48
	Global financial markets	50
	The network enterprise	55
	Individualization of labor	61
	Informational capitalism : critical issues	65
3	Experience	75
	Social movements as subjects of history	76
	Social movements beyond the local	81
	Social movements and the creation of identity	83
	Two case studies	87
	Social movements and the culture of real virtuality	99
4	The network state and informational politics	104
	The theory of the state	106
	The crisis of the nation-state	109
	Informational politics	115
	The reaffirmation of the state	118
	The rise of the network state?	122
	Power and networks	128
5	Flows and places	141
	Castells's theory of space	142
	The space of flows	145
	The time of flows	155
	Cities in the space of flows	162
6	The logic of networks	167
	What is a network?	169
	Informational networks	181
	The network logic	185
	Preeminence of morphology over action	196