The Power of Identity
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"Every now and then one reads a book of social science that isuplifting and mind expanding. These books are ambitious andlustrous, teaching us much about our world. Such is this work fromthe brilliant sociologist Manuel Castells. There is no othersociological work today that brings together in one panoramicexpanse so many of the changes now occurring. This is a story notsimply of global economic change, but of cultural upheavals. It isa tale not simply of the decline of sovereign states, but of theemergence of the new bases of power. And it is a narrative notmerely about computer technology or the media, but of the veryterms in which those agents work." -Anthony M. Orum, Contemporary Sociology "A magnum opus if ever there was one. In my view, the finestpiece of contemporary social analysis for at least ageneration." -Frank Webster, British Journal ofSociology "A truly stunning achievement. A scholar who, with remarkablemastery, has brought his experience over a lifetime to bear onastonishingly diversified data set, pulling them together into acompelling account of the complex relationship between theprogressive and the reactionary, the globalizing andparticularizing forces that are transforming our perplexingworld." -Benjamin Barber, The Los Angeles Times Sunday BookReviewsMore details
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List of Tables xiv
List of Charts xvi
Preface to the 2010 Edition of The Power of Identity xvii
Preface and Acknowledgments 2003 xxxvii
Acknowledgments 1996 xliii
Our World, our Lives 1
1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society 5
The Construction of Identity 6
God's Heavens: Religious Fundamentalism and Cultural Identity 12
Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism 13
God save me! American Christian fundamentalism 23
Nations and Nationalisms in the Age of Globalization: Imagined Communities or Communal Images? 30
Nations against the state: the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Impossible States (Sojuz Nevozmoznykh Gosudarstv) 35
Nations without a state: Catalunya 45
Nations of the information age 54
Ethnic Unbonding: Race, Class, and Identity
in the Network Society 56 Territorial Identities: The Local Community 63
Conclusion: The Cultural Communes of the Information Age 68
2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order 71
Globalization, Informationalization, and Social Movements 72
Mexico's Zapatistas: The First Informational Guerrilla Movement 75
Who are the Zapatistas? 77
The value structure of the Zapatistas: identity, adversaries, and goals 80
The communication strategy of the Zapatistas: the Internet and the media 82
The contradictory relationship between social movement and political institution 85
Up in Arms against the New World Order: The American Militia and the Patriot Movement 87
The militias and the Patriots: a multi-thematic information network 90
The Patriots' banners 95
Who are the Patriots? 98
The militia, the Patriots, and American society 99
The Lamas of Apocalypse: Japan's Aum Shinrikyo 100
Asahara and the development of Aum Shinrikyo 101
Aum's beliefs and methodology 104
Aum and Japanese society 105
Al-Qaeda, 9/11, and Beyond: Global Terror in the Name of God 108
The goals and values of al-Qaeda 111
The evolving process of al-Qaeda's struggle 115
The mujahedeen and their support bases 119
The young lion of the global jihad: Osama bin Laden 124
From bin Laden to bin Mahfouz: financial networks, Islamic networks, terrorist networks 128
Networking and media politics: the organization, tactics, and strategy of al-Qaeda 135
9/11 and beyond: death or birth of a networked, global, fundamentalist movement? 140
"No Globalization without Representation!": The Anti-globalization Movement 145
"El pueblo desunido jamas sera vencido": the diversity of the anti-globalization movement 147
The values and goals of the movement against globalization 152
Networking as a political way of being 154
An informational movement: the theatrical tactics of anti-globalization militants 156
The movement in context: social change and institutional change 158
The Meaning of Insurgencies against the New Global Order 160
Conclusion: The Challenge to Globalization 166
3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement 168
The Creative Cacophony of Environmentalism: A Typology 170
The Meaning of Greening: Societal Issues and the Ecologists' Challenge 179
Environmentalism in Action: Reaching Minds, Taming Capital, Courting the State, Tap-dancing with the Media 186
Environmental Justice: Ecologists' New Frontier 190
4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age 192
The Crisis of the Patriarchal Family 196
Women at Work 215
Sisterhood is Powerful: The Feminist Movement 234
American feminism: a discontinuous continuity 235
Is feminism global? 243
Feminism: an inducive polyphony 252
The Power of Love: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements 261
Feminism, lesbianism, and sexual liberation movements in Taipei 266
Spaces of freedom: the gay community in San Francisco 271
Summing up: sexual identity and the patriarchal family 279
Family, Sexuality, and Personality in the Crisis of Patriarchalism 280
The incredibly shrinking family 280
The reproduction of mothering under the non-reproduction of patriarchalism 288
Body identity: the (re)construction of sexuality 294
Flexible personalities in a post-patriarchal world 299
The End of Patriarchalism? 301
5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? 303
Globalization and the State 304
The transnational core of national economies 305
A statistical appraisal of the new fiscal crisis of the state in the global economy 307
Globalization and the welfare state 312
Global communication networks, local audiences, uncertain regulators 316
A lawless world? 321
The Nation-state in the Age of Multilateralism 323
Global Governance and Networks of Nation-states 328
Identities, Local Governments, and the Deconstruction of the Nation-state 332
The Identification of the State 337
The Return of the State 340
The state, violence, and surveillance: from Big Brother to little sisters 340
American unilateralism and the new geopolitics 344
The Iraq War and its aftermath 349
The consequences of American unilateralism 353
The Crisis of the Nation-state, the Network State, and the Theory of the State 356
Conclusion: The King of the Universe, Sun Tzu, and the Crisis of Democracy 364
6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy 367
Introduction: The Politics of Society 367
Media as the Space of Politics in the Information Age 371
Politics and the media: the citizens' connection 371
Show politics and political marketing: the American model 375
Is European politics being "Americanized"? 381
Bolivia's electronic populism: compadre Palenque and the coming of Jach'a Uru 386
Informational Politics in Action: The Politics of Scandal 391
The Crisis of Democracy 402
Conclusion: Reconstructing Democracy? 414
Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society 419
Methodological Appendix 429
Appendix for Tables 5.1 and 5.2 429
Appendix for Figure 6.9: Level of Support for Mainstream Parties in National Elections, 1980-2002 456
Summary of Contents of Volumes I and III 464
References 466
Index 512
