Aftermath The Cultures of the Economic Crisis

The consequences of the current financial crisis may be uncertain, but they are sure to reach deep into every aspect of society. This collection of essays by international sociologists and social scientists, led by Manuel Castells, explores the likely consequences, including social breakdown, new forms of protest such as the Occupy movement, and the rise of alternative economic cultures. They conclude we are entering a world that is profoundly different from thesocial and economic conditions that characterized the preceding three decades; and that to address this reality, we need nothing less than a complete transformation of the mind-set that led to bankruptcy and despair, and to economies and societies based on an unsustainable model of speculative financeand political irresponsibility.

Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning, University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, of the Academia Europaea, of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and of the British Academy. His main books include the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Blackwell, 1996-2003) and Communication Power (OUP, 2009). He was a founding member of the board of the European Research Council and is a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.


Joao Caraca obtained a D. Phil. in Nuclear Physics at the University of Oxford and the Agregacao in Physics at the Lisbon Faculty of Sciences. He is Director of the Science Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and also Full Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao of the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa. He is member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology - EIT. He also integrates the Steering Group of the European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding and is President of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Business Association for Innovation - COTEC. He was Science Adviser of the President of the Portuguese Republic (1996-2006), has published over 150 scientific papers, and co-authored Limits to Competition (1995), co-edited O Futuro Tecnologico (1999) and collaborated in Le Printemps du Politique (2007).

Gustavo Cardoso is Professor of Media and Society at IUL - Lisbon University Institute. His areas of interest are the cultures of the network society, the transformations of the notions of property, distribution and production of cultural goods, and the role of online social networking. Between 1996 and 2006 he was advisor on Information Society and telecommunications policies to the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic and in 2008 was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. His international cooperation in European research networks led him to work with IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) in Barcelona, WIP (World Internet Project) at USC Annenberg, COST A20 "The Impact of the Internet in Mass Media" and COST 298 "Broadband Society." During the last five years he has been the Director of OberCom media observatory in Lisbon and is deputy chairman of the board of LUSA, the Portuguese global news agency.

An Introduction
PRELUDE
2: Rosalind Williams: The Rolling Apocalypse of Contemporary History
3: João Caraça: The Separation of Cultures and the Decline of Modernity
WHICH CRISIS? WHOSE CRISIS?
4: John B. Thompson: The Metamorphosis of a Crisis
5: Michel Wieviorka: Financial Crisis or Societal Mutation?
DEALING WITH THE CRISIS
6: Sarah Banet-Weiser: Branding the Crisis
7: Terhi Rantanen: In Nationalism We Trust?
8: Pekka Himanen: Crisis, Identity and the Welfare State
BEYOND THE CRISIS
9: Gustavo Cardoso and Pedro Jacobetty: Surfing the Crisis: Cultures of Belonging and Networked Social Change
10: Joana Conill, Manuel Castells, Amalia Cardenas and Lisa Servon: Beyond the Crisis: The Emergence of Alternative Economic Practises
THE NON-GLOBAL GLOBAL CRISIS
11: You-tien Hsing: No Crisis in China? The Rise of China's Social Crisis
12: Ernesto Ottone: A Non-Global Crisis? Challenging the Crisis in Latin America
AFTERMATH?
1. The Cultures of the Economic Crisis: An Introduction, Manuel Castells, Joao Caraca and Gustavo Cardoso
PRELUDE
2. The Rolling Apocalypse of Contemporary History, Rosalind Williams
3. The Separation of Cultures and the Decline of Modernity, Joao Caraca
WHICH CRISIS? WHOSE CRISIS?
4. The Metamorphosis of a Crisis, John B. Thompson
5. Financial Crisis or Societal Mutation?, Michel Wieviorka
DEALING WITH THE CRISIS
6. Branding the Crisis, Sarah Banet-Weiser
7. In Nationalism We Trust?, Terhi Rantanen
8. Crisis, Identity and the Welfare State, Pekka Himanen
BEYOND THE CRISIS
9. Surfing the Crisis: Cultures of Belonging and Networked Social Change, Gustavo Cardoso and Pedro Jacobetty
10. Beyond the Crisis: The Emergence of Alternative Economic Practises, Joana Conill, Manuel Castells, Amalia Cardenas and Lisa Servon
THE NON-GLOBAL GLOBAL CRISIS
11. No Crisis in China? The Rise of China's Social Crisis, You-tien Hsing
12. A Non-Global Crisis? Challenging the Crisis in Latin America, Ernesto Ottone
AFTERMATH?