The Power of Identity

Manuel Castells 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2011년 09월 20일 출간

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In this second volume of The Information Age 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.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our worldApplies Castells- hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the worldA brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the worldAnalyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movementThrows new light on the dynamics of global and local change

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List of Figures xiiList of Tables xivList of Charts xviPreface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of Identity xviiPreface and Acknowledgments 2003 xxxviiAcknowledgments 1996 xliiiOur World, our Lives 11 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society 5The Construction of Identity 6God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity 12Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism 13God save me! American Christian fundamentalism 23Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images? 30Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv) 35Nations without a state: Catalunya 45Nations of the information age 54Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identityin the Network Society 56 Territorial Identities: The Local Community 63Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age 682 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order 71Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements 72Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement 75Who are the Zapatistas? 77The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals 80The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media 82The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution 85Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement 87The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network 90The Patriots&- banners 95Who are the Patriots? 98The militia, the Patriots, and American society 99The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo 100Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo 101Aum's beliefs and methodology 104Aum and Japanese society 105Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God

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저자(글) Manuel Castells

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Manuel Castells 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 The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, first published by Blackwell in 1996~8, which has been translated into 20 languages; and Communication Power (2009).