The Power of Identity: With a New Preface, Volume II, Second edition With a new preface

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 world * Applies Castells’ hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world * A brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world * Analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movement * Throws new light on the dynamics of global and local change Content: Chapter 1 Communal Heavens: Identity and Meaning in the Network Society (pages 5–70): Chapter 2 The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order (pages 71–167): Chapter 3 The Greening of the Self: The Environmental Movement (pages 168–191): Chapter 4 The End of Patriarchalism: Social Movements, Family, and Sexuality in the Information Age (pages 192–302): Chapter 5 Globalization, Identification, and the State: A Powerless State or a Network State? (pages 303–366): Chapter 6 Informational Politics and the Crisis of Democracy (pages 367–418): 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 world
• Applies Castells’ hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the world
• A brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the world
• Analyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movement
• Throws new light on the dynamics of global and local change

The information technology revolution The new economy : informationalism, globalization, networking The network enterprise : the culture, institutions, and organizations of the informational economy The transformation of work and employment : networkers, jobless, and flex-timers The culture of real virtuality : the integration of electronic communication, the end of the mass audience, and the rise of interactive networks The space of flows The edge of forever : timeless time The crisis of industrial statism and the collapse of the soviet union The rise of the fourth world : informational captalism, poverty, and social exclusion The perverse connection : the global criminal economy Development and crisis in the asian pacific : globalization and the state The unification of europe : globalization, identity, and the network state. The second volume of Manuel Castells' trilogy "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture". The book deals with the social, political and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy