Manuel Castells

The book serves as both an excellent introduction to Manuel Castellss wide-ranging theories and an innovative critique which contributes to ongoing debates in the field. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, geography and the social sciences generally.

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

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(8)

1 Transformation of Baselines

9

(33)

Neo-Marxism and the Renewal of Urban Sociology

13

(7)

Technology and Social Change

20

(8)

Informationalism

28

(5)

Epistemology

33

(5)

The Politics of Research

38

(4)

2 Production

42

(33)

Postindustrialism

43

(3)

The Economic Crisis of the 1970's

46

(2)

Internationalization of the Economy

48

(2)

Global Financial Markets

50

(5)

The Network Enterprise

55

(6)

Individualization of Labor

61

(4)

Informational Capitalism: Critical Issues

65

(10)

3 Experience

75

(29)

Social Movements as Subjects of History

76

(5)

Social Movements beyond the Local

81

(2)

Social Movements and the Creation of Identity

83

(4)

Two Case Studies

87

(12)

Social Movements and the Culture of Real Virtuality

99

(5)

4 The Network State and Informational Politics

104

(37)

The Theory of the State

106

(3)

The Crisis of the Nation-State

109

(6)

Informational Politics

115

(3)

The Reaffirmation of the State

118

(4)

The Rise of the Network State?

122

(6)

Power and Networks

128

(13)

5 Flows and Places

141

(26)

Castells's Theory of Space

142

(3)

The Space of Flows

145

(10)

The Time of Flows

155

(7)

Cities in the Space of Flows

162

(5)

6 The Logic of Networks

167

(32)

What is a Network?

169

(12)

Informational Networks

181

(4)

The Network Logic

185

(11)

Preeminence of Morphology over Action

196

(3)

Conclusion

199

(8)

Notes

207

(17)

Bibliography of Manuel Castells

224

(17)

Other References

241

(11)

Index

252

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