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  • Rupture

    The Crisis of Liberal Democracy

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Translated by Rosie Marteau ...
    The majority of citizens in the world today do not trust their political representatives, the mainstream political parties, the established political institutions or their governments. This widespread crisis of legitimacy underlies a series of dramatic changes that have taken place in recent times in the global political landscape, such as the unexpected election of Donald Trump, Brexit, the ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Networks of Outrage and Hope

    Social Movements in the Internet Age

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Networks of Outrage and Hope 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, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere. While these and similar social movements differ in many important ways, there is one thing they share in common ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • The Power of Identity

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Series Book 14 - Information Age Series
    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 ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Another Economy is Possible

    Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of the inevitability of unfettered capitalism as a fact of life. A number of economic practices and organizations emerged in Europe and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Technopoles of the World

    The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. Created out of a technological revolution, the formation of the global economy and the emergence of a new form of economic production and management, they constitute the mines and foundries of the information age, redefining the conditions and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam

    Politics, Culture, and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization

    by Manuel Castells, Renate Holub, Krishan Kumar, Paul Lubeck, Laurence Michalak, Tariq Modood, Hala Mustafa, Agha Saeed, Bassam Tibi0, Michel Wieviorka1 ...
    Series series Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place
    Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam brings together distinguished scholars from Europe, the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Critical Education in the New Information Age

    by Manuel Castells, Ramón Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, Paul Willis ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change.The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Mobile Communication and Society

    A Global Perspective

    by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Araba Sey ...
    Series series Information Revolution and Global Politics
    How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world—in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world.Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life—or all of the above? Mobile Communication ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Piracy Cultures

    How a Growing Portion of the Global Population Is Building Media Relationships Through Alternate Channels of Obtaining Content

    by Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso EDS ...
    Piracy CulturesEditorial IntroductionMANUEL CASTELLS1University of Southern CaliforniaGUSTAVO CARDOSOLisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL)What are "Piracy Cultures"? Usually, we look at media consumption starting from a media industry definition. We look at TV, radio, newspapers, games, Internet, and media content in general, all departing from the idea that the access to such content is made ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The New Latin America

    by Manuel Castells, Fernando Calderón ...
    Translated by Ramsey McGlazer ...
    Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological modernization has gone hand-in-hand with the reshaping of old identities and the emergence of new ones.The transformation of Latin America has been ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Aftermath

    The Cultures of the Economic Crisis

    Edited by Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso, João Caraça ...
    The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different from the social and economic conditions that characterized the rise of global, informational capitalism in the preceding three decades. The policies ... Read more

    $26.99 USD