Manuel Castells

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Edited by Frank Webster, Basil Dimitriou
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Release Date: March 2, 2004
Format: MIXED MEDIA PRODUCT
Pages: 866

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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.

Professor Frank Webster comes from a small coal-mining village in the south west of County Durham in North East England. He attended Coundon Junior School from 1956-62 and Spennymoor Secondary School from 1962-69, then read Sociology at the University of Durham (BA, MA, 1972, 1974). He completed his formal studies at the London School of Economics (LSE, PhD 1978

VOLUME ONE PART ONE: LA QUESTION URBAINE AND THE URBAN QUESTION: A MARXIST APPROACH SECTION ONE: REVIEWS A Propos de `La Question Urbaine' - Jean-Pierre Garnier Review - Christopher G Pickvance Review - Henry Pratt Review - Raymond Bradley SECTION TWO: SELF-CRITICISM Afterword 1975 - Manuel Castells SECTION THREE: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ESSAYS On the Study of Urban Social Movements - Christopher G Pickvance Protest and Quiescence in Urban Politics - Patrick Dunleavy The Urban as a Spatial Unit of Collective Consumption - Peter Saunders Two Extracts from Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity - Mike Savage and Alan Warde SECTION FOUR: BEYOND THE URBAN QUESTION? The Myth of Urban Politics - C Paris Manuel Castells and the New Urban Sociology - Brian Elliott Monopolville - Elizabeth Lebas The Economic and Political Logic of Capital Review - Shoukry T Roweis The Making of a New Urban Sociology - Uwe-Jens Walther Castells in Context PART TWO: THE CITY AND THE GRASSROOTS SECTION ONE: REVIEWS Review - Christopher G Pickvance Review - Charles Tilly Review - Robert Fishman Review - Ian Procter Review - Morton Rubin SECTION TWO: ANALYSIS Castells on Urban Social Movements - Stuart Lowe The City and the Grassroots - Stuart Lowe VOLUME TWO PART THREE: THE INFORMATIONAL CITY: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND THE URBAN-REGIONAL PROCESS SECTION ONE: REVIEW ESSAY Theorizing the New Industrial Space - Barry Smart Castells on Capitalism Information Technology and the City SECTION TWO: REVIEW ARTICLE Information and Urban Change - Frank Webster Manuel Castells SECTION THREE: REVIEWS Review - David Clark Review - Mark Goodwin Reinventing the City State - Peter Hall Review - Mike Hepworth Review - Edward J Malecki Review - Ian Miles Review - Daniel J Monti Review - James Eflin PART FOUR: THE INFORMATION AGE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE SECTION ONE: REVIEW WITH REPLY On the Failure of Social Theory - Peter Abell and Diane Reyniers A Rejoinder to Abell and Reyniers' `Failure of Social Theory' - Manuel Castells SECTION TWO: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM PROMETHEUS Resisting Globalization or Shaping It - Craig Calhoun The Net, the Self and the Future - David Lyon Global Thinking for the Information Age - Alain Touraine Globalization and Identity in the Network Society - Manuel Castells SECTION THREE: SYMPOSIUM WITH REPLY FROM NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY The New Weber - Chris Freeman The End-of-Millenium World - Krishan Kumar Contraflows in Critical Theory - Nick Stevenson A Rejoinder - Manuel Castells 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 - Jos[ac]e Enrique Rodriguez Ib[ac]anez La estructura social de la era de la informaci[ac]on - Jos[ac]e F[ac]elix Tezanos Red, identidad, espacio y tiempo - Ram[ac]on Ramos Torre Indentidad, estado, trabajo, tiempo y espacio en la sociedad red - Manuel Castells contribuci[ac]on a un debate abierto SECTION FIVE: SYMPOSIUM Deciphering Information Technologies - Nico Stehr Modern Societies as Networks A Political Economy of New Times? Critical Reflections on the Network Society and the Ethos of Informational Capitalism - Barry Smart Inequality and Mobilization in the Information Age - Abigail Halcli and Frank Webster SECTION SIX: REVIEW ESSAYS Empire.net - Mark Williams The Information Age According to Manuel Castells - Andrew Calabrese A New Globe in the Making - Markku Wilenius Manuel Castells on the Information Age El autor red - Javier Echeverria VOLUME THREE PART FOUR (CONTINUED)THE INFORMATION AGE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, CULTURE SECTION SIX (CONTINUED)REVIEW ESSAYS Review of Castells, The Information Age - J C Ny[ac]iri The Brave New World of Manuel Castells - Peter Waterman What on Earth (or in the Ether) is Going On? Self and Net in the Information Age - Krishan Kumar Is This the Information Age? Towards a Critique of Manuel Castells - Frank Webster Manuel Castells - Frank Webster Analyist of the Information Age The Space of Flows and Timeless Time - Simon Bromley Back to the Future? Manuel Castells' The Information Age and the Prospects for Social Welfare - Mark J Stern The One-Dimensional Network Society of Manuel Castells - Jan A G M Van Dijk Reading Castells - John Friedman Zeitdiagnose and Social Theory Information Society Theory as Ideology - Nicholas Garnham A Critique `Information Society' as Theory or Ideology - Nicholas Garnham Review Essay - Steve Fuller SECTION SEVEN: REVIEW ARTICLES AND ANALYSES IN BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS Myths of the `New Economy' - Alex Callinicos The Grand Sociology of Manuel Castells - Shive Visvanathan Contested Power - Kate Nash Political Sociology in the Information Age Grassroots Environmental Movements - Alan Dordoy and Mary Mellor Mobilisation in an Information Age The Information Age - Jim McGuigan SECTION EIGHT: SHORT REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS Review - Frank Webster Cognitions, Emotions and Identities - Janet L Abu-Lughod Review - John Boli SECTION NINE: REVIEWS IN NEWSPAPERS AND WEEKLIES Brave New World - Benjamin Barber A Philosopher of the Web is a Hit in Silicon Valley - G Pascal Zachary Digital Commerce - Denise Caruso La Fin des Centres - Roger-Pol Droit Out of Place - Anthony Giddens World of Feathers - Anthony Giddens Ties that Bind and Tear - Anthony Smith SECTION TEN: INTERVIEWS Uneasy? He's Here to Help - Martin Ince Theory, Technology and Cultural Power - Joanne Roberts An Interview with Manuel Castells Interview - John Lloyd Manuel Castells

'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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