Manuel Castells

First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformations Distills the central ideas in Castells work into an accessible and concise introduction for undergraduate students Explores Castells writings on the network society, informational capitalism and democracy in crisis Provides a critical analysis of Castells thought in relation to ongoing debates about globalization

Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1: Transformation of Baseline 1 Neo-Marxism and the Renewal of Urban Sociology 13 Technology and Social Change 20 Informationalism 28 Epistemology 33 The Politics of Research 38 2: Production 42 Postindustrialism 43 The Economic Crisis of the 1970s 46 Internationalization of the Economy 48 Global Financial Markets 50 The Network Enterprise 55 Individualization of Labor 61 Informational Capitalism: Critical Issues 65 3: Experience 75 Social movements as subjects of history 76 Social movements beyond the local 81 Social movements and the creation of identity 83 Two case studies 87 Social movements and the culture of real virtuality 99 4: The network state and informational politics 104 The theory of the state 106 The crisis of the nation-state 109 Informational politics 115 The reaffirmation of the state 118 The rise of the network state? 122 Power and networks 128 5: Flows and places 141 Castells's theory of space 142 The space of flows 145 The time of flows 155 Cities in the space of flows 162 6: The logic of networks 167 What is a network? 169 Informational networks 181 The network logic 185 Preeminence of morphology over action 196 Conclusion 199 Notes 207 Bibliography of Manuel Castells 224 Other References 241 Index 252