By Manuel Castells(auth.)
During this moment quantity of The info Age trilogy, with an in depth new preface following the new international financial difficulty, Manuel Castells offers with the social, political, and cultural dynamics linked to the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the financial system.
- Extensive new preface examines how dramatic contemporary occasions have remodeled the socio-political panorama of our global
- Applies Castells’ hypotheses to modern matters akin to Al Qaeda and international terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the challenge of political legitimacy through the international
- A fabulous account of social, cultural, and political clash and fight world wide
- Analyzes the significance of cultural, spiritual, and nationwide identification as assets of which means for individuals, and its implications for social circulate
- Throws new mild at the dynamics of world and native switch
Content:
Chapter 1 Communal Heavens: identification and which means within the community Society (pages 5–70):
Chapter 2 the opposite Face of the Earth: Social events opposed to the hot worldwide Order (pages 71–167):
Chapter three The Greening of the Self: The Environmental stream (pages 168–191):
Chapter four the tip of Patriarchalism: Social routine, family members, and Sexuality within the details Age (pages 192–302):
Chapter five Globalization, identity, and the country: A Powerless nation or a community nation? (pages 303–366):
Chapter 6 Informational Politics and the challenge of Democracy (pages 367–418):
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Why so? 21 Umma versus Jahiliya: Islamic fundamentalism The only way to accede to modernity is by our own path, that which has been traced for us by our religion, our history and our civilization. Rached Gannouchi22 The 1970s, the birthdate of the information technology revolution in Silicon Valley, and the starting-point of global capitalist restructuring, had a different meaning for the Muslim world: it marked the begin17 Marty and Appleby (1991). 18 Marty (1988: 20). 19 Marty and Appleby (1991: ix–x).
14 IDENTITY AND MEANING IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY ning of the fourteenth century of the Hegira, a period of Islamic revival, purification, and strengthening, as at the onset of each new century.
Legitimizing identity generates a civil society; that is, a set of organizations and institutions, as well as a series of structured and organized social actors, which reproduce, albeit sometimes in a conflictive manner, the identity that rationalizes the sources of structural domination. This statement may come as a surprise to some readers, since civil society generally suggests a positive connotation of democratic social change. However, this is in fact the original conception of civil society, as formulated by Gramsci, the intellectual father of this ambiguous concept.