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Castells in Africa
Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the university's function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
The Internet Galaxy
Castells helps us understand how the Internet came into being and how it is affecting every area of human life. This guide reveals the Internet's huge capacity to liberate, but also its possibility to exclude those who do not have access to it.
The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory
This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods.
The Rise of the Network Society
This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe
Networks of Outrage and Hope
This book is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common: they are all interwoven inextricably with the creation of autonomous communication networks supported by the Internet and wireless communication. In this timely and important book, Manuel Castells – the leading scholar of our contemporary networked society – examines the social, cultural and political roots of these new social movements, studies their innov...
The Informational City
The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction between information technology, economic restructuring and socio-spatial change through the empirical observation of contemporary national, urban and regional processes in the capitalist world, with emphasis on the United States. The author summarizes a very wide range of evidence of urban and regional development, and isolates the causes and consequences of the processes and trends that may be observed.
O poder da identidade
Segundo volume da trilogia "A Era da Informação: Economia, Sociedade e Cultura" . Neste livro, o autor examina as duas grandes tendências conflitantes que moldam o mundo de hoje: a globalização e a identidade. Manuel Castells descreve as origens, os propósitos e os efeitos de movimentos ativistas, como o feminismo e o ambientalismo, que visam a transformar as relações humanas em seu nível mais fundamental, assim como de movimentos conservadores, que constroem trincheiras de resistência em nome de Deus, da nação, da etnia, da família ou da localidade. O autor mostra que as categorias básicas da existência vêm sendo ameaçadas por forças tecnoeconômicas e de movimentos sociai...
Tan lejos de Dios
No es un secreto que el Vaticano, en el nombre de Dios, ha maltratado y tergiversado las creencias originales del cristianismo. Así mismo, La Iglesia Católica, representada por el Vaticano, ha encubierto o simplemente guardado silencio frente a asesinatos, actos de pederastia, fraudes financieros y corrupción política, entre otros delitos, mientras sus prédicas son conservadoras, moralistas y anacrónicas. Así las cosas, sus fieles se sienten abandonados y muchos simplemente se han apartado de la práctica católica para transitar su camino espiritual en otros credos e iglesias. La llegada del papa Francisco, con su humildad, su innegable carisma y sus ideas frescas, ha traído una luz...
The Urban Question
A review of the original French edition of this book in the American Journal of Sociologyhailed it as "the most finished product yet to emerge from the new (Marxist) school of French urban sociology... The aim of the book is nothing less than to reconceptualize the field of urban sociology. It is carried out in two stages: a critique of the literature of urban sociology (and urbanization) and an attempt to lay the Marxist bases for a reconstructed urban sociology." The problems facing the world's cities, whether problems of development or of decay, cannot be solved until they have been diagnosed. The race riots in Detroit, the shantytowns of Paris, the financial crisis of New York must not b...
