Manuel Castells

Number Of Volumes: 3
Frank Webster - City University, UK
Basil Dimitriou - Oxford Brookes University, UK
SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought Series
December 2003 | 924 pages | Sage UK
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These volumes bring together major critical responses to, and engagement with, the work of Manuel Castells. Arguably the leading analyst of the current age, Castells' magnum opus, The Information Age, has been compared to the work of Karl Marx and Max Weber. His concept of `the network society' has influenced much recent social science and his ideas have been adopted in political and policy circles.

The volumes provide an unparalleled guide to the work of Castells. They demonstrate the roots of his thinking in Marxism and the shifts in his perspective. The selection if based along two principles: the chronological development of his thought and the sequence of his major publications.

Included here are critical engagements with Castells' work on the urban question, the city and grassroots; Marxism; the Information Age; the network society; power and identity; the new economy; and the sociology of social movements.

Volume 1: Marxism, France and `The Urban Question' to `The City and the Grassroots'

This volume addresses Castells' engagement with the study of urban social movements; protest in urban politics; collective consumption; states, markets and welfare; urban sociology; and class

Volume 2: From the Informational City to the Information Age

This volume examines the theorizing of new industrial-urban space; the dynamics of urban change; the roots of the network society; the failure of social theory; resisting globalization; the development of global thinking; globalization and identity.

Volume 3: The Information Age

This volume addresses the character of information technologies; the political economy of network society; inequality and modernization in the information age; the self and the net; space flows and timeless space; contested power; grassroots environmental movements; cognitions, emotions and identities; digital commerce; and technology and cultural power.

The collection provides the best available concentration of writings on the work of Manuel Castells. It will be of interest to readers in sociology, urban studies, political science and affiliated fields.

Contents

VOLUME ONE

VOLUME ONE

PART ONE: <i>LA QUESTION URBAINE</i> AND THE URBAN QUESTION: A MARXIST APPROACH

PART ONE: <i>LA QUESTION URBAINE</i> AND THE URBAN QUESTION: A MARXIST APPROACH

SECTION ONE: REVIEWS

  • A Propos de `<i>La Question Urbaine'
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review

SECTION TWO: SELF-CRITICISM

  • Afterword 1975

SECTION THREE: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

  • On the Study of Urban Social Movements
  • Protest and Quiescence in Urban Politics
  • The Urban as a Spatial Unit of Collective Consumption
  • Two Extracts from Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity</i>

SECTION FOUR: BEYOND <i>THE</i> <i>URBAN QUESTION</i>?

  • The Myth of Urban Politics
  • Manuel Castells and the New Urban Sociology
  • Monopolville
  • The Economic and Political Logic of Capital
  • Review
  • The Making of a New Urban Sociology
  • Castells in Context

PART TWO: <i>THE CITY AND THE GRASSROOTS

PART TWO: <i>THE CITY AND THE GRASSROOTS

SECTION ONE: REVIEWS

  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review

SECTION TWO: ANALYSIS

  • Castells on Urban Social Movements
  • The City and the Grassroots

VOLUME TWO

VOLUME TWO

PART THREE: THE INFORMATIONAL CITY</i>: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND THE URBAN-REGIONAL PROCESS

PART THREE: THE INFORMATIONAL CITY</i>: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND THE URBAN-REGIONAL PROCESS

SECTION ONE: REVIEW ESSAY

  • Theorizing the New Industrial Space
  • Castells on Capitalism Information Technology and the City

SECTION TWO: REVIEW ARTICLE

  • Information and Urban Change
  • Manuel Castells

SECTION THREE: REVIEWS

  • Review
  • Review
  • Reinventing the City State
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review

PART FOUR: <i>THE INFORMATION AGE</i>: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

PART FOUR: <i>THE INFORMATION AGE</i>: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

SECTION ONE: REVIEW WITH REPLY

  • On the Failure of Social Theory
  • A Rejoinder to Abell and Reyniers' `<i>Failure of Social Theory'

SECTION TWO: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM PROMETHEUS

  • Resisting Globalization or Shaping It
  • The Net, the Self and the Future
  • Global Thinking for the Information Age
  • Globalization and Identity in the Network Society

SECTION THREE: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY

  • The New Weber
  • The End-of-Millenium World
  • Contraflows in Critical Theory
  • A Rejoinder
  • On Power, Identities and Culture in the Network Society

SECTION FOUR: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM REIS

  • Un grand tapiz sociol[ac]ogico que ha conquistado la posteridad
  • La estructura social de la era de la informaci[ac]on
  • Red, identidad, espacio y tiempo
  • Indentidad, estado, trabajo, tiempo y espacio en la sociedad red
  • contribuci[ac]on a un debate abierto

SECTION FIVE: SYMPOSIUM

  • Deciphering Information Technologies
  • Modern Societies as Networks
  • A Political Economy of New Times? Critical Reflections on the Network Society and the Ethos of Informational Capitalism
  • Inequality and Mobilization in the Information Age

SECTION SIX: REVIEW ESSAYS

  • Empire.net
  • The Information Age According to Manuel Castells
  • A New Globe in the Making
  • Manuel Castells on the Information Age
  • El autor red

VOLUME THREE

VOLUME THREE

PART FOUR (CONTINUED)THE INFORMATION AGE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

PART FOUR (CONTINUED)THE INFORMATION AGE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

SECTION SIX (CONTINUED)REVIEW ESSAYS

  • Review of Castells, The Information Age
  • The Brave New World of Manuel Castells
  • What on Earth (or in the Ether) is Going On?
  • Self and Net in the Information Age
  • Is This the Information Age? Towards a Critique of Manuel Castells
  • Manuel Castells
  • Analyist of the Information Age
  • The Space of Flows and Timeless Time
  • Back to the Future? Manuel Castells' The Information Age</i> and the Prospects for Social Welfare
  • The One-Dimensional Network Society of Manuel Castells
  • Reading Castells
  • <i>Zeitdiagnose</i> and Social Theory
  • Information Society Theory as Ideology
  • A Critique
  • `<i>Information Society'</i> as Theory or Ideology
  • Review Essay

SECTION SEVEN: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ANALYSES IN BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS

  • Myths of the `New Economy'
  • The Grand Sociology of Manuel Castells
  • Contested Power
  • Political Sociology in the Information Age
  • Grassroots Environmental Movements
  • Mobilisation in an Information Age
  • The Information Age

SECTION EIGHT: SHORT REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

  • Review
  • Cognitions, Emotions and Identities
  • Review

SECTION NINE: REVIEWS IN NEWSPAPERS AND WEEKLIES

  • Brave New World
  • A Philosopher of the Web is a Hit in Silicon Valley
  • Digital Commerce
  • <i>La Fin des Centres
  • Out of Place
  • World of Feathers
  • Ties that Bind and Tear

SECTION TEN: INTERVIEWS

  • Uneasy? He's Here to Help
  • Theory, Technology and Cultural Power
  • An Interview with Manuel Castells
  • Interview
  • Manuel Castells

Description

These volumes bring together major critical responses to, and engagement with, the work of Manuel Castells. Arguably the leading analyst of the current age, Castells' magnum opus, The Information Age, has been compared to the work of Karl Marx and Max Weber. His concept of `the network society' has influenced much recent social science and his ideas have been adopted in political and policy circles.

The volumes provide an unparalleled guide to the work of Castells. They demonstrate the roots of his thinking in Marxism and the shifts in his perspective. The selection if based along two principles: the chronological development of his thought and the sequence of his major publications.

Included here are critical engagements with Castells' work on the urban question, the city and grassroots; Marxism; the Information Age; the network society; power and identity; the new economy; and the sociology of social movements.

Volume 1: Marxism, France and `The Urban Question' to `The City and the Grassroots'

This volume addresses Castells' engagement with the study of urban social movements; protest in urban politics; collective consumption; states, markets and welfare; urban sociology; and class

Volume 2: From the Informational City to the Information Age

This volume examines the theorizing of new industrial-urban space; the dynamics of urban change; the roots of the network society; the failure of social theory; resisting globalization; the development of global thinking; globalization and identity.

Volume 3: The Information Age

This volume addresses the character of information technologies; the political economy of network society; inequality and modernization in the information age; the self and the net; space flows and timeless space; contested power; grassroots environmental movements; cognitions, emotions and identities; digital commerce; and technology and cultural power.

The collection provides the best available concentration of writings on the work of Manuel Castells. It will be of interest to readers in sociology, urban studies, political science and affiliated fields.

Contents

VOLUME ONE

VOLUME ONE

PART ONE: <i>LA QUESTION URBAINE</i> AND THE URBAN QUESTION: A MARXIST APPROACH

PART ONE: <i>LA QUESTION URBAINE</i> AND THE URBAN QUESTION: A MARXIST APPROACH

SECTION ONE: REVIEWS

  • A Propos de `<i>La Question Urbaine'
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review

SECTION TWO: SELF-CRITICISM

  • Afterword 1975

SECTION THREE: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

  • On the Study of Urban Social Movements
  • Protest and Quiescence in Urban Politics
  • The Urban as a Spatial Unit of Collective Consumption
  • Two Extracts from Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity</i>

SECTION FOUR: BEYOND <i>THE</i> <i>URBAN QUESTION</i>?

  • The Myth of Urban Politics
  • Manuel Castells and the New Urban Sociology
  • Monopolville
  • The Economic and Political Logic of Capital
  • Review
  • The Making of a New Urban Sociology
  • Castells in Context

PART TWO: <i>THE CITY AND THE GRASSROOTS

PART TWO: <i>THE CITY AND THE GRASSROOTS

SECTION ONE: REVIEWS

  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review

SECTION TWO: ANALYSIS

  • Castells on Urban Social Movements
  • The City and the Grassroots

VOLUME TWO

VOLUME TWO

PART THREE: THE INFORMATIONAL CITY</i>: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND THE URBAN-REGIONAL PROCESS

PART THREE: THE INFORMATIONAL CITY</i>: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND THE URBAN-REGIONAL PROCESS

SECTION ONE: REVIEW ESSAY

  • Theorizing the New Industrial Space
  • Castells on Capitalism Information Technology and the City

SECTION TWO: REVIEW ARTICLE

  • Information and Urban Change
  • Manuel Castells

SECTION THREE: REVIEWS

  • Review
  • Review
  • Reinventing the City State
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review

PART FOUR: <i>THE INFORMATION AGE</i>: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

PART FOUR: <i>THE INFORMATION AGE</i>: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

SECTION ONE: REVIEW WITH REPLY

  • On the Failure of Social Theory
  • A Rejoinder to Abell and Reyniers' `<i>Failure of Social Theory'

SECTION TWO: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM PROMETHEUS

  • Resisting Globalization or Shaping It
  • The Net, the Self and the Future
  • Global Thinking for the Information Age
  • Globalization and Identity in the Network Society

SECTION THREE: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY

  • The New Weber
  • The End-of-Millenium World
  • Contraflows in Critical Theory
  • A Rejoinder
  • On Power, Identities and Culture in the Network Society

SECTION FOUR: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM REIS

  • Un grand tapiz sociol[ac]ogico que ha conquistado la posteridad
  • La estructura social de la era de la informaci[ac]on
  • Red, identidad, espacio y tiempo
  • Indentidad, estado, trabajo, tiempo y espacio en la sociedad red
  • contribuci[ac]on a un debate abierto

SECTION FIVE: SYMPOSIUM

  • Deciphering Information Technologies
  • Modern Societies as Networks
  • A Political Economy of New Times? Critical Reflections on the Network Society and the Ethos of Informational Capitalism
  • Inequality and Mobilization in the Information Age

SECTION SIX: REVIEW ESSAYS

  • Empire.net
  • The Information Age According to Manuel Castells
  • A New Globe in the Making
  • Manuel Castells on the Information Age
  • El autor red

VOLUME THREE

VOLUME THREE

PART FOUR (CONTINUED)THE INFORMATION AGE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

PART FOUR (CONTINUED)THE INFORMATION AGE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE

SECTION SIX (CONTINUED)REVIEW ESSAYS

  • Review of Castells, The Information Age
  • The Brave New World of Manuel Castells
  • What on Earth (or in the Ether) is Going On?
  • Self and Net in the Information Age
  • Is This the Information Age? Towards a Critique of Manuel Castells
  • Manuel Castells
  • Analyist of the Information Age
  • The Space of Flows and Timeless Time
  • Back to the Future? Manuel Castells' The Information Age</i> and the Prospects for Social Welfare
  • The One-Dimensional Network Society of Manuel Castells
  • Reading Castells
  • <i>Zeitdiagnose</i> and Social Theory
  • Information Society Theory as Ideology
  • A Critique
  • `<i>Information Society'</i> as Theory or Ideology
  • Review Essay

SECTION SEVEN: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ANALYSES IN BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS

  • Myths of the `New Economy'
  • The Grand Sociology of Manuel Castells
  • Contested Power
  • Political Sociology in the Information Age
  • Grassroots Environmental Movements
  • Mobilisation in an Information Age
  • The Information Age

SECTION EIGHT: SHORT REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS

  • Review
  • Cognitions, Emotions and Identities
  • Review

SECTION NINE: REVIEWS IN NEWSPAPERS AND WEEKLIES

  • Brave New World
  • A Philosopher of the Web is a Hit in Silicon Valley
  • Digital Commerce
  • <i>La Fin des Centres
  • Out of Place
  • World of Feathers
  • Ties that Bind and Tear

SECTION TEN: INTERVIEWS

  • Uneasy? He's Here to Help
  • Theory, Technology and Cultural Power
  • An Interview with Manuel Castells
  • Interview
  • Manuel Castells

December 2003 | 924 pages | Sage UK

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These volumes bring together major critical responses to, and engagement with, the work of Manuel Castells. Arguably the leading analyst of the current age, Castells' magnum opus, The Information Age, has been compared to the work of Karl Marx and Max Weber. His concept of `the network society' has influenced much recent social science and his ideas have been adopted in political and policy circles.

The volumes provide an unparalleled guide to the work of Castells. They demonstrate the roots of his thinking in Marxism and the shifts in his perspective. The selection if based along two principles: the chronological development of his thought and the sequence of his major publications.

Included here are critical engagements with Castells' work on the urban question, the city and grassroots; Marxism; the Information Age; the network society; power and identity; the new economy; and the sociology of social movements.

Volume 1: Marxism, France and `The Urban Question' to `The City and the Grassroots'

This volume addresses Castells' engagement with the study of urban social movements; protest in urban politics; collective consumption; states, markets and welfare; urban sociology; and class

Volume 2: From the Informational City to the Information Age

This volume examines the theorizing of new industrial-urban space; the dynamics of urban change; the roots of the network society; the failure of social theory; resisting globalization; the development of global thinking; globalization and identity.

Volume 3: The Information Age

This volume addresses the character of information technologies; the political economy of network society; inequality and modernization in the information age; the self and the net; space flows and timeless space; contested power; grassroots environmental movements; cognitions, emotions and identities; digital commerce; and technology and cultural power.

The collection provides the best available concentration of writings on the work of Manuel Castells. It will be of interest to readers in sociology, urban studies, political science and affiliated fields.


Table Of Contents:

  • VOLUME ONE
  • PART ONE: <i>LA QUESTION URBAINE</i> AND THE URBAN QUESTION: A MARXIST APPROACH
  • SECTION ONE: REVIEWS
  • A Propos de `<i>La Question Urbaine'
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • SECTION TWO: SELF-CRITICISM
  • Afterword 1975
  • SECTION THREE: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
  • On the Study of Urban Social Movements
  • Protest and Quiescence in Urban Politics
  • The Urban as a Spatial Unit of Collective Consumption
  • Two Extracts from Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity</i>
  • SECTION FOUR: BEYOND <i>THE</i> <i>URBAN QUESTION</i>?
  • The Myth of Urban Politics
  • Manuel Castells and the New Urban Sociology
  • Monopolville
  • The Economic and Political Logic of Capital
  • Review
  • The Making of a New Urban Sociology
  • Castells in Context
  • PART TWO: <i>THE CITY AND THE GRASSROOTS
  • SECTION ONE: REVIEWS
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • SECTION TWO: ANALYSIS
  • Castells on Urban Social Movements
  • The City and the Grassroots
  • VOLUME TWO
  • PART THREE: THE INFORMATIONAL CITY</i>: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND THE URBAN-REGIONAL PROCESS
  • SECTION ONE: REVIEW ESSAY
  • Theorizing the New Industrial Space
  • Castells on Capitalism Information Technology and the City
  • SECTION TWO: REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Information and Urban Change
  • Manuel Castells
  • SECTION THREE: REVIEWS
  • Review
  • Review
  • Reinventing the City State
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • Review
  • PART FOUR: <i>THE INFORMATION AGE</i>: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE
  • SECTION ONE: REVIEW WITH REPLY
  • On the Failure of Social Theory
  • A Rejoinder to Abell and Reyniers' `<i>Failure of Social Theory'
  • SECTION TWO: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM PROMETHEUS
  • Resisting Globalization or Shaping It
  • The Net, the Self and the Future
  • Global Thinking for the Information Age
  • Globalization and Identity in the Network Society
  • SECTION THREE: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY
  • The New Weber
  • The End-of-Millenium World
  • Contraflows in Critical Theory
  • A Rejoinder
  • On Power, Identities and Culture in the Network Society
  • SECTION FOUR: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM REIS
  • Un grand tapiz sociol[ac]ogico que ha conquistado la posteridad
  • La estructura social de la era de la informaci[ac]on
  • Red, identidad, espacio y tiempo
  • Indentidad, estado, trabajo, tiempo y espacio en la sociedad red
  • contribuci[ac]on a un debate abierto
  • SECTION FIVE: SYMPOSIUM
  • Deciphering Information Technologies
  • Modern Societies as Networks
  • A Political Economy of New Times? Critical Reflections on the Network Society and the Ethos of Informational Capitalism
  • Inequality and Mobilization in the Information Age
  • SECTION SIX: REVIEW ESSAYS
  • Empire.net
  • The Information Age According to Manuel Castells
  • A New Globe in the Making
  • Manuel Castells on the Information Age
  • El autor red
  • VOLUME THREE
  • PART FOUR (CONTINUED)THE INFORMATION AGE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE
  • SECTION SIX (CONTINUED)REVIEW ESSAYS
  • Review of Castells, The Information Age
  • The Brave New World of Manuel Castells
  • What on Earth (or in the Ether) is Going On?
  • Self and Net in the Information Age
  • Is This the Information Age? Towards a Critique of Manuel Castells
  • Manuel Castells
  • Analyist of the Information Age
  • The Space of Flows and Timeless Time
  • Back to the Future? Manuel Castells' The Information Age</i> and the Prospects for Social Welfare
  • The One-Dimensional Network Society of Manuel Castells
  • Reading Castells
  • <i>Zeitdiagnose</i> and Social Theory
  • Information Society Theory as Ideology
  • A Critique
  • `<i>Information Society'</i> as Theory or Ideology
  • Review Essay
  • SECTION SEVEN: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ANALYSES IN BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
  • Myths of the `New Economy'
  • The Grand Sociology of Manuel Castells
  • Contested Power
  • Political Sociology in the Information Age
  • Grassroots Environmental Movements
  • Mobilisation in an Information Age
  • The Information Age
  • SECTION EIGHT: SHORT REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS
  • Review
  • Cognitions, Emotions and Identities
  • Review
  • SECTION NINE: REVIEWS IN NEWSPAPERS AND WEEKLIES
  • Brave New World
  • A Philosopher of the Web is a Hit in Silicon Valley
  • Digital Commerce
  • <i>La Fin des Centres
  • Out of Place
  • World of Feathers
  • Ties that Bind and Tear
  • SECTION TEN: INTERVIEWS
  • Uneasy? He's Here to Help
  • Theory, Technology and Cultural Power
  • An Interview with Manuel Castells
  • Interview
  • Manuel Castells

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'The editors have put together a rich and versatile collection of reviews and essays around the thirty years of scholarship by this incredibly prolific writer. There is praise but also criticism like on most scholars. What is remarkable with Manuel Castells, and with this collection, is the fact that the agenda setting hits the core of (post)modern world and its scientific study. These volumes do not only serve as a guide to Castells but also as a reading of the state of the art of modern sociology' - Kaarle Nordenstreng, University of Tampere, Finland

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