文档介绍：The Power of Identity
Second edition
With a new preface
Manuel Castells
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
The Information Age
Economy, Society, and Culture
Volume II
The Power of Identity
Originally published in 1997, The Power of Identity, the second
volume in The Information Age trilogy, saw the writing on the global
wall – recognizing identity as a defining principle of aniza-
tion and analyzing the importance of cultural, religious, and national
identities as sources of meaning for people, and the implications of
these identities for social movements.
Now with an extensive new preface following the recent global
economic crisis, this second edition analyzes the major social and
political events directly derived from the diagnosis of the book: Al
Qaeda and fundamentalist works; the Iraq War; the geo-
politics of fear under the Bush Administration; and the -based
networking of global social movements fighting for global justice.
Studying grassroots mobilizations against the unfettered globalization
of wealth and power, and the formation of alternative projects of
anization, this book charts the transformation of the nation-
state into work state, and the submission of political representa-
tion to the dictates of media politics.
Table of Contents for Volumes I and III of Manuel Castells’ The
Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture
Volume I: The Rise of work Society
Prologue: and the Self
1 The Information Technology Revolution
2 The New Economy: Informationalism, Globalization, Network-
ing
3 work Enterprise: The Culture, Institutions, aniza-
tions of the Informational Economy
4 The Transformation of Work and Employment: Networkers, Job-
less, and Flex-timers
5 The Culture of Real Virtuality: The Integration of Electronic
Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of
works
6 The Space of Flows
7 The Edge of Forever: Timeless Time
Conclusion: work Society
Volume III: End of Millenniu