The Power of Identity - Manuel Castells
KORTE INHOUD
This is an account of the two great and conflicting trends now shaping the world: globalization and identity. The information technology revolution and the restructuring of capitalism have induced the network society, and ushered in the globalization of strategic economic activities, flexiblity and instability of work and culture of real virtuality.
But, alongside the transformation of capitalism and the demise of statism, there has been a powerful surge of expressions of collective identity. These challenge globilization on behalf of cultural singularity and control over life and environment. Manuel Castells describes the origings, purpose and effect of proactive movements, such as feminism and environmentalism, which aim to transform human relationships at their most fundamental level, and of reactive movements that build trenches of resistance on behalf of God, nation, ethnicity, family, or locality.
The fundamental categories of existence, the author shows, are threatened by the combined, contradictory assa...
But, alongside the transformation of capitalism and the demise of statism, there has been a powerful surge of expressions of collective identity. These challenge globilization on behalf of cultural singularity and control over life and environment. Manuel Castells describes the origings, purpose and effect of proactive movements, such as feminism and environmentalism, which aim to transform human relationships at their most fundamental level, and of reactive movements that build trenches of resistance on behalf of God, nation, ethnicity, family, or locality.
The fundamental categories of existence, the author shows, are threatened by the combined, contradictory assa...
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