Manuel Castells

End of Millennium, with a New Preface (eBook, PDF)

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END OF MILLENNIUM This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society. "Every now and then one reads a book of social science that is uplifting and mind expanding. These books are ambitious and lustrous, teaching us much about our world. Such is this work from the brilliant sociologist Manuel Castells. There is no other sociological work today that brings together in one panoramic expanse so many of the changes now occurring. This is a story not simply of global economic change, but of cultural upheavals. It is a tale not simply of the decline of sovereign states, but of the emergence of the new bases of power. And it is a narrative not merely about computer technology or the media, but of the very terms in which those agents work." Anthony M. Orum, Contemporary Sociology "A magnum opus if ever there was one. In my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation." Frank Webster, British Journal of Sociology "A truly stunning achievement. A scholar who, with remarkable mastery, has brought his experience over a lifetime to bear on astonishingly diversified data set, pulling them together into a compelling account of the complex relationship between the progressive and the reactionary, the globalizing and particularizing forces that are transforming our perplexing world." Benjamin Barber, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Reviews

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• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444323443
• Artikelnr.: 37345976

Autorenporträt

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 Research Professor 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 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has received 16 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, and has been knighted by five countries. He has authored 23 books, among which is the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, first published by Blackwell in 1996-8, and translated into 22 languages.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Charts. Preface to the 2010
Edition of End of Millennium. Acknowledgments 1997. A Time of Change. 1 The
Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. The
Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyperindustrialism.
The Technology Question. The Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet
Federalism. The Last Perestroika. Nationalism, Democracy, and the
Disintegration of the Soviet State. The Scars of History, the Lessons for
Theory, the Legacy for Society. 2 The Rise of the Fourth World:
Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion. Toward a Polarized
World? A Global Overview. The De-humanization of Africa. Marginalization
and selective integration of Sub-Saharan Africa in the informational-global
economy. Africa's technological apartheid at the dawn of the Information
Age. The predatory state. Za1re: the personal appropriation of the state.
Nigeria: oil, ethnicity, and military predation. Ethnic identity, economic
globalization, and state formation in Africa. Africa's plight. Africa's
hope? The South African connection. Out of Africa or back to Africa? The
politics and economics of self-reliance. The New American Dilemma:
Inequality, Urban Poverty, and Social Exclusion in the Information Age.
Dual America. The inner-city ghetto as a system of social exclusion. When
the underclass goes to hell. Globalization, Over-exploitation, and Social
Exclusion: the View from the Children. The sexual exploitation of children.
The killing of children: war massacres and child soldiers. Why children are
wasted. Conclusion: the Black Holes of Informational Capitalism. 3 The
Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy. Organizational
Globalization of Crime, Cultural Identification of Criminals. The Pillage
of Russia. The structural perspective. Identifying the actors. Mechanisms
of Accumulation. Narcotrafico, Development, and Dependency in Latin
America. What are the economic consequences of the drugs industry for Latin
America? Why Colombia? The Impact of Global Crime on Economy, Politics, and
Culture. 4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and
the State. The Changing Fortunes of the Asian Pacific. Heisei's Japan:
Developmental State versus Information Society. A social model of the
Japanese developmental process. Declining sun: the crisis of the Japanese
model of development. The end of "Nagatacho politics". Hatten Hokka and
Johoka Shakai: a contradictory relationship. Japan and the Pacific.
Beheading the Dragon? Four Asian Tigers with a Dragon Head, and their Civil
Societies. Understanding Asian development. Singapore: state
nation-building via multinational corporations. South Korea: the state
production of oligopolistic capitalism. Taiwan: flexible capitalism under
the guidance of an inflexible state. Hong Kong model versus Hong Kong
reality: small business in a world economy, and the colonial version of the
welfare state. The breeding of the tigers: commonalities and
dissimilarities in their process of economic development. The developmental
state in East Asian industrialization: on the concept of the developmental
state. The rise of the developmental state: from the politics of survival
to the process of nation-building. The state and civil society in the
restructuring of East Asia: how the developmental state succeeded in the
development process. Divergent paths: Asian "tigers" in the economic
crisis. Democracy, identity, and development in East Asia in the 1990s.
Chinese Developmental Nationalism with Socialist Characteristics. The new
Chinese revolution. Guanxi capitalism? China in the global economy. China's
regional developmental states and the bureaucratic (capitalist)
entrepreneurs. Weathering the storm? China in the Asian economic crisis.
Democracy, development, and nationalism in the new China. Conclusion:
Globalization and the State. 5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization,
Identity, and the Network State. European Unification as a Sequence of
Defensive Reactions: a Half-century Perspective. Globalization and European
Integration. Cultural Identity and European Unification. The
Institutionalization of Europe: the Network State. European Identity or
European Project? Conclusion: Making Sense of our World. Genesis of a New
World. A New Society. The New Avenues of Social Change. Beyond this
Millennium. What is to be Done? Finale. Summary of Contents of Volumes I
and II. References. Index.